NYC Educator: Gotham Schools Values:
Yesterday I went to a rally at City Hall to protest Bloomberg's plan to extend co-locations for years into the term of his successor (assuming he doesn't buy off the City Council and change the law again). I saw a group of reporters there, and cameras. For example,
it merited a story at NY1. I was pretty surprised to find it didn't show up at Gotham Schools. But after all, it was only the United Federation of Teachers, which represents every single public school teacher in the city, so why should their even merit coverage? And those were real parent activists up there, rather than those pursuing a Gates agenda, so why should we worry about them?
Conversely, when an astroturf group like Students First NY holds a rally to announce something that's not actually going to happen,
there's a picture right there so everyone can see. Gotham Schools readers can ask one another, "Gee, what is Michelle Rhee's NY branch going to not do next? Are they going to
not tape kids' mouths shut? After all, Rhee found it hilarious when she herself did it."
But no the rally itself did not make the Gotham cut. Perhaps it was
