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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Charters, Blackwater, justifying cruelty to children: Future schools in Trumpland |

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Charters, Blackwater, justifying cruelty to children: Future schools in Trumpland



How can you be in charge of a Newark charter school and mess up a venerable name like Paul Robeson? Was “Miss” Gray’s shadow-self acting out and halfway, in her mind, to Robberson? Now that’s a Freudian name-drop.
I found this letter’s closing to be particularly twisted. Like this:

From the charter school handbook?
From the charter school handbook?



The “beatings” usually occur on many different levels – in public life – and begin with a simple loss of face, before escalating from there. Same with the coopting (or destruction) of basic family relationships and responsibilities.
What you encounter depends on where you go to look. Serious, serious, stuff.
But wait – why are some readers so quick to provide cover for the reputation of ALL charter schools? (See comments from Jody Pittman and Eric Dawson).
Just like … what’s-her-name? Eva. Eva “Success Academy” Moskowitz (founder of a charter school chain in New York) – gotta love the name, Eva – reminds me of another Braun (hope you don’t mind, Bob), a star-struck young woman who, upon suddenly finding favor within THE leader-cult of her day, was soon vexed – in the extreme – by what later became a troubled and fatally conflicted relationship. (Moskowitz, touted early as education secretary under Donald Trump, lost out to Charters, Blackwater, justifying cruelty to children: Future schools in Trumpland |: