From the Black Agenda Report: BlackLivesMatter/CampaignZero Activist Brittney Packnett (Almost) Tries to Defend the Indefensible, Teach for America
Originally posted on the Black Agenda Report:
TFA/BlackLivesMatter/CampaignZero Activist Brittney Packnett (Almost) Tries to Defend the Indefensible
Brittney Packnett, Executive Director for Teach for America St. Louis
Packnett’s problem however, and Teach For America’s too, is that their mission so clearly indefensible that they can’t really talk about what Teach For America actually does, and why it does those things.
Stung by growing public recognition of Teach For America’s heinous role in destabilizing communities and destroying public education, CampaignZero/BlackLivesMatter activist & TFA’s Brittney Packnett took to Huffington Post last week to defend herself and TFA’s mission. But school privatization is so unpopular she had to resort to misdirection and mumbling about her St. Louis origins and supposed conspiracy theories against her instead.
By Bruce A. Dixon
As the pivotal role of Teach For America in the elite bipartisan drive to privatize public education comes more sharply into public view, it’s natural that TFA operatives and apologists will try to defend their missions and careers. That’s what Brittney Packnett’s sad and disingenuous “Let’s Get Back To Work” piece in Huffington Post last week was about.
Packnett’s problem however, and Teach For America’s too is that their mission so clearly indefensible that they can’t really talk about what Teach For America actually does, and why it does those things.
TFA, whose St. Louis director is Ms. Packnett, cannot just come out and say they spend hundreds of millions a year in corporate and government funds replacing experienced, qualified, mostly black public school teachers with undertrained and mostly white temps to facilitate the policy goal of their corporate funders, which is the privatization of public education.
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