AFT L.A. CONVENTION- TRUTH, PLATITUDES...AND NO ACTION
The hardest lies to address are ones embedded in truth. As the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) convention opened in Los Angeles on Friday, July 11th with the keynote speech. President Randi Weingarten clearly laid out the 5 point battle plan of those seeking to dismantle what remains of public education in the United States for money and the further dumbing down of America. However, what she didn't lay out was her own hand in facilitating this process by assuring that the AFT she heads and its locals around the country do absolutely nothing to stop this privatization juggernaut.
Like Superintendent John Deasy, who heads the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), before becoming AFT president, Weingarten was an ersatz teacher-lawyer for a very short time who was brought in to facilitate the corporate agenda of privatization, that with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan as its head, seems to be as much the love child of her Democratic Party masters as it is of the Republicans. Have you noticed that when it comes to big ticket items on the corporate privatization agenda, there doesn't seem to be much of a difference between where the Democrats and the Republicans stand?
What makes it difficult- if not impossible to stop- is the likes of Weingarten and Deasy present themselves as reformers only interested in public education and not the exorbitant salaries and additional benefits they receive from the corporations and foundations whose sole goal is to privatize American public education for money and the institutionalization of ignorance.
In her rather apt description of the "Five-Step Plan of Attack" the corporations and foundations are using to achieve this goal, AFT L.A. CONVENTION- TRUTH, PLATITUDES...AND NO ACTION - Perdaily.com: