Geaux Teacher!: "I have lost faith in the PTA," says Parent:

"I have lost faith in the PTA," says Parent

This comment was made by a PTA Mom in response to a blog by Diane Ravitch. In her blog, Diane relays the thoughts of Peter Greene on U.S.Ed Sec. Arne Duncan's speech at the National PTA Conference. I have re-posted Peter's statement after the Mom's comment.

Note: The Gates Foundation awarded a couple million $$ to the National PTA specifically to promote the Common Core Initiative. Ever since I heard that I have wondered if the folks at the National PTA level had a clue about Common Core, surveyed their members, or if they normally just accept money from any source.

http://dianeravitch.net/2014/02/07/ny-pta-parents-outraged-by-ccss-but/

PTA mom

June 29, 2014 at 9:10 am

I was at that PTA convention in Texas and I bit my tongue through his entire speech. I wanted to throw up. I have lost faith in the PTA. While I love what PTA does at a local level for our schools, I am sickened by what I see at the state and National PTA levels. Our voices as members have been sold out to corporate interests, and the top leadership is out of touch with parents today. Most of the top leaders dont even have children in public schools anymore so they think we are overreacting about the excessive testing and problems with common core. The leaders enjoy the power and prestige of their office and won’t listen to parents and teachers.

Even more alarming, the general meetings at the national PTA convention were sponsored by Discover Card, Microsoft, and Pearson. During the general meetings, attendees were forced to sit through 15 minute commercials about their corporations and hear about their “partnerships” with PTA. The week before the convention, delegates received emails from PTA with advertisements for Pearson, telling us to be sure to stop by Pearson’s booth in the exhibit hall. How much did PTA get to spam our inboxes with marketing? We paid a lot of money to attend that convention, I don’t appreciate my email address being sold like that, especially to Pearson.

******

http://dianeravitch.net/2014/06/29/peter-greene-the-arne-duncan-drinking-game/

Peter Greene proves himself a man of infinite patience. In this post, he analyzes and deconstructs a speech that Arne Duncan Geaux Teacher!: "I have lost faith in the PTA," says Parent:

James Baldwin said it best:

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."

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