When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired…
When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired, and poverty is treated as a crime.
Name one failing school in an affluent community. One. In all of America.
The propaganda about failing schools being due to bad teachers is promoted by the vast power, wealth and influence of wealthy (not merely affluent) Corporate Education Reform organizations and foundations via corporate owned media.
American schools, removing scores from poverty afflicted communities, are among the best in the world. American education is NOT failing. (All schools in all countries need, of course, to continue efforts to improve and update. This is not the issue.)
The surge of propaganda claiming that those who fail (children, schools, teachers, etc.) are “undeserving” is blatant illusion.
America has the recurring cruel habit of punishing the poor for being poor.
In 1936 a famous French writer, Vladimir Pozner, wrote about his visit to America in the depths of the Great Depression.
“The News of Englewood reports that a hundred poor families of this rich Jersey City suburb eat straight from the trash cans, concluding: ‘This is a state of affairs that must be rectified at once, a state of affairs that any red-blooded citizen will want to put a stop to, even if it costs him his bottom dollar. The necessary amount must be raised immediately to build a waste incinerator that will put an end to these revolting practices.'”When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired… | Reclaim Reform: