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Matt Damon’s Mom Scolds the Bostin Globe on its Pro-Corporate Refrom Bias | Scathing Purple Musings

Matt Damon’s Mom Scolds the Bostin Globe on its Pro-Corporate Refrom Bias | Scathing Purple Musings

Matt Damon’s Mom Scolds the Bostin Globe on its Pro-Corporate Refrom Bias

Matt Damon’s mother, a former teacher, joined her son at the July 30 Save Our Schools March in Washington DC. Nancy Carlsson-Paige certainly supported the March, but focused much of a letter she wrote to the editor ofThe Boston Globe on the newspaper itself:

I WENT to the Save Our Schools march in Washington last Saturday with my son, Matt Damon, and thousands of citizens who are worried about the harm corporate education reform is causing to children, teachers, and communities. The only reporting of this march in The Boston Globe was in the “Names’’ section in a trivial little item called “Damon loves teachers,’’ that made no mention of the importance of this march and its goals

Not only did thousands of people pour into Washington to protest education policy, but the nation’s