Michelle Rhee has started her three-city “teacher town hall” meetings, where she will meet with teachers.
She is accompanied by George Parker, former head of the Washington, D.C., teachers union, who now works for Rhee’s StudentsFirst, and by Steve Perry, the former education commentator at CNN who runs a no-excuses magnet school in Connecticut.
She held her first town hall in Los Angeles. Apparently it went smoothly.
But one student rose to disagree with Rhee. Her name is Hannah Nguyen. She explained why she no longer believes in Rhee’s definition of “reform.”
As it happens, Rhee’s schedule and mine will almost coincide in Philadelphia. She speaks there on September 16, I will be speaking at the Philadelphia Free Library on September 17.
Philadelphia’s public schools are in crisis. They have been under state control since 2001. Last spring, the schools laid off 20% of staff.
I hope that when Rhee is in Philadelphia, she will call on Governor Corbett to restore the massive budget cuts that have crippled the public schools in Philadelphia.
Corbett cut the public schools of the state by $1 billion, which fell especially hard on Philadelphia.
Parent activist Helen Gym writes this:
- Massive overcrowding, including reports of 48 students in a class (in multiple classrooms across the district)!
- Re-institution of over 100 split grade classes, despite the fact this practice was eliminated as policy;
- No specific or public safety plans for the movement of 7,000-8,000 students across the district as a result of 24 school closings;
- No full-time guidance counselors in 60% of all schools in the district, including half of all high schools
- Only one guidance counselor for schools between 600-3,000 students
- One secretary per school (Northeast High School has 3,000 students-your call will be answered in the order in which it was received)
- Roving 16-member counselor team serving an average ratio of 1 to 3,000 students to handle special education emergencies only
- No assistant principals unless a school has at least 850 students
- One nurse per 1500 students
- Zero full time librarians
Parents United for Public Education
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Some history about George Parker:
On June 3, 2010, at their union leader’s urging, the Washington D.C. Teachers Union ratified a contract with the Washington D.C. School District, headed by Chancellor Michelle Rhee, which included performance pay linked to test score growth, and a weakening of seniority and tenure. Union President George Parker called the ratification of the contract “a great day for teachers and students.”
On November 10, 2010, Parker was voted out of office by the union rank-and-file. On May 20, 2011, Michelle Rhee announced that Parker was joining her corporate reform organization StudentsFirst. Rhee had resigned as Chancellor of Washington D.C. schools on October 13, 2010, and started StudentsFirst soon after. Rhee’s Deputy Chancellor and chief negotiator of the 2010 teachers’ contract, Kaya Henderson, replaced her. Henderson recently announced the proposed closing of 20 schools due to “under enrollment”.
Isn’t this just a perfect example of “selling your soul to the devil?”
BELOW is a transcript of Hannah’s
comments.
By the way, Hannah is a USC
freshman, (and an aspiring
teacher!), having been accepted
there after her recent graduation
from Crenshaw High, which was
re-constituted against the will of
the community and faculty. In
fact, the teachers union UTLA
is filing and unfair labor practice
on the grounds that all of the UTLA
activists were not asked back to
teach at the reconstituted
Crenshaw—as a retalition against
their prior activism.
Hannah is living, breathing proof
of the quality of the former
incarnation of Crenshaw:
http://laschoolreport.com/teachers-union-files-two-unfair-labor-practice-charges/
HANNAH NGUYEN:
“Hi, everyone. My name is Hannah, I’m
a student… Just a few things though, I
felt like this whole event was very much
looking at these educational policy
issues as a reformers versus teacher
unions kind of issue, and as a student
standing here and watching this battle
it is really disheartening, because it’s
a lot deeper than that, and these are
everyday realities.
“And this is more than a reformers
versus teachers union battle, this is
a social justice issue.
“And there’s a lot of things brought
up — going back to poverty —
reformers say that poverty isn’t
destiny, and that sounds great, and
I believe in that, and that’s
awesome.
“But you know what, if you really
care about students, you should say
that poverty shouldn’t be.
“Yes, we need to work on in-school
factors, and simultaneously we need
to work on out-of-school factors and
caring about the whole child.
“Back to high stakes testing. I don’t
know a single student — I’m sorry, I
have a lot of friends, and I have
friends at other schools too — I don’t
know a single student who says that
they learned something from a
high-stakes test, and the way that
their school is structured. They
should be given the freedom to
learn what they want to learn, open
curriculum, well-rounded, arts, music,
humanities….
“I used to stand by reformers, I will
admit it, I did. But after seeing the
facts, and the data and everything,
and my own lived experience. I
cannot – I’m sorry — stand by what
you preach if it has to do with
high-stakes accountability, this
“school choice,” which sounds great,
you know, choice — who can argue a
gainst that?
“But, I don’t agree with the fact that
charter schools, and how they push
our certain students, and I’ve seen it
happen.
“My main point is, listen to the
students. Listen to the students.”
Oh, and here’s the YouTube link
for Hannah’s speech, (which just
hit 10,000 views in less than 48
hours!!!)
This young woman is awesome!!!
Reblogged this on Blog of an e-marketer by Main Uddin.
Perry certainly has No Excuses for the kids who don’t make it through his program but are ignored in the statistics he waves about like a national flag. I keep thinking if you’re in the Philadelphia Free Library, Rhee should be in the Philadelphia Pay As You Go Library.
In all humility, I call on all the posters on this blog who are for a “better education for all” to read this posting, click on the link, and keep in mind that the young woman who stood up to Michelle Rhee—
Did not change her mind because of insults, lies and spin.
Frankness mixed with civility, facts accompanied by a mindfulness to tone, listening as much as speaking, an unrelenting commitment to being fair even in the face of slanders and hype, walking the talk, being self-critical even when it hurts—
This is from OUR playbook.
“The arc of the Moral Universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” [Martin Luther King]
Not without pain. Not as quickly as we would like. We’re not the first to be in this situation, and we won’t be the last.
Just remember this young woman if you are feeling inclined to adopt the tactics—and by implication, the goals—of the leading charterites/privatizers and their EduUnderlings.
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” [Mahatma Gandhi]
We are attempting to open people’s eyes, not pluck them out.
🙂
Yes. I agree fully.
However, if you were to remove the money that Rhee and Parker and others like them are receiving, we would never hear from them again.
They’re doing what they are doing because they are being paid for it. If they weren’t getting money for this or if their billionaire benefactors demanded they change course and stop advocating their current agenda, they’d drop this specious “Ed Reform” fraud faster than a hot potato.
We who post here, in opposition to Rhee and her noxious and deceptive words and deeds, don’t get money for this. We do this because we care about these issues and are committed to seeing the truth and spreading the word—often at some financial cost to us and our families.
And that’s a real difference.
Agree, teachers don’t enter the profession to get “rich”. The enter the profession to “enrich” the lives of their students.
Correction!
Agree, teachers don’t enter the profession to get “rich”. They enter the profession to “enrich” the lives of their students.
Of course, we should be “civil” in the broadest sense of the word. But we should also be authentic, and most of us are authentically angry. There is nothing wrong with concluding, upon a review of the evidence, that Rhee is a fraud, that Perry at least acts like a parasite. Students, especially, need to see our passion (for the very things Hannah cares about). There is a fine line between civility and domestication. At this point, a slight lack of civility would be unfortunate, but domestication deadly.
Maybe this is a case where I would consider the label “hero” appropriate.
If nothing else the student shows she was taught by some “heroic” teachers.
I applaud this young woman who spoke out. The adults are fighting over the heads of bright, articulate students whom we educated. Many other voices, however, are not being listened to as well, including principals and administrators who have no union support whatsoever and are often caught in the middle. We are stereotyping–“all union members are bad,” “all charter/voucher schools are bad.” Don’t we teach our students this is incorrect critical thinking?
Krazy TA this is a war for all the cookies. Sometimes being nice is what gets you killed. We did not choose the methodology. They chose it. Now we must react to the threat. If not properly reacted to in a manner which is meaningful to them they will not care. Play nice and you will get crushed. How much does it take for you educators to realize what is really happening. Did any of you read history and really UNDERSTANT IT???? It is obvious that no one seems to understand what is really going on and what they want and how they will do it. I got it. I mess with them. Go ask Duncan, Deasy and Brill for starts and do not forget the DFER in California with Gloria Romero when Lenny Isenburg (perdaily.com) videoed and questioned them. Watch them freeze at George1la along with the last time Rhee was in town I have the only video of her uncut. Lenny and I did it. Soon CORE-CA is going to have a website up with goods. I mean documents and the law. No more fooling around like the educrats do. We do not just talk, we act. Like busting them with the illegal way they are operating LCFF. Suddenly the response period is wide open instead of being shut down at noon the day of the last hearing or busting CDE special ed division with multiple versions of the proposed rules and regulations. Illegal. We also assisted in stopping Measure J for $90 billion. That is real money. All through organization including Beverly Hills joining with the black and brown communities and many others for a common protection against MTA. This is not done through SOFT BALL. This is HARD BALL.
Totally agree, George! No time to be nice!
Show us how!
Will some please duct tape Ms. Rhee’s mouth shut? Why does anyone take anything that this woman has to say at all seriously?
I regret having made this comment. I don’t believe in silencing oppositional voices. Even one has incoherent as that of Ms. Rhee, who was not an educator but played one on TV.
Robert D. Shepherd: it was masking tape, not duct tape. But her tee-hees as she described this incident are, well, as so many commercials put it, such-and-such is a great product but Michelle Rhee actually saying what is on her mind,
PRICELESS!
Strangely, the tape recording made of her describing the incident is no longer on the net. However, check out this link to the original story:
Link: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcschools/2010/08/michelle_rhee_first-year_teach.html
Chuck and George Buzzetti: I appreciate your postings and want to be sure we understand each other. “Authentically angry”—yes! A “war for all the cookies”—you bet!
I am not a religious person, but I think Voltaire put it well: “God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
Each will do what he or she thinks is best, but passivity, silence and inaction = compliance with the education establishment. But whatever one does, don’t waste your powder on matters of little consequence.
Just my dos centavitos worth…
🙂
OK. Masking tape. One expects Rhee to choose the wrong tool for the job.
The audio of Michelle Rhee telling about using masking tape on her students can be heard here. This and other incidents must be heard to really understand her attitude towards her students and what type of teacher she was during the several years she was a TFA teacher.
http://tinyurl.com/6q73a5p
Would teacher Michelle Rhee have survived administrator Michelle Rhee?
KTA,
“Each will do what he or she thinks is best, but passivity, silence and inaction = compliance with the education establishment.”
And defines the banality of evil.
philaken: thank you for the link to Michelle Rhee’s disturbingly “tee hee” moment.
To this day, I am baffled why her principal, co-workers, and the parents of the children just shrugged the whole thing off.
That the principal advocates for those children consented by their acceptance of—and by their silence for so many years—to behavior that would have been grounds for immediate dismissal in even the worst public school, is heartbreaking to anyone with a conscience and a heart.
What sort of demeaning life lesson did those young people learn? We will probably never know.
We know what Michelle Rhee learned from it: you can do anything that strikes your fancy, no matter how vile, and get away with it. Regrets?
Here is note #6 from a piece by John Merrow:
“6. Rhee’s biographer, Richard Whitmire, has characterized her as ‘a zealot’ who believes in the absolute rightness of what she is doing. His book is The Bee Eater.
She also declared–proudly–that she was not inclined to look back. Shortly after she fired a principal she had appointed just a few weeks earlier (replacing one she had fired), I asked her if she had any regrets about her actions. “I’m a very unusual person in that, in my entire life, I don’t have any regrets. I’m a person without regret. Now, are there things that I could have done differently? And if I had to rewrite it, you know, I would have, you know, done it with a smarter way or whatnot, yeah. There are absolutely things that I could have done better. But regrets? No.” She said that in December 2007. Would she say that today?”
Link: http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6232&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lmtv_takingnote+(Taking+Note+by+John+Merrow)
😦
It should be noted that neither the Los Angeles Daily News nor the LA Times has, to date, reported on Rhee’s town hall last Thursday. In fact, I don’t know if anyone covered it. I think this is the biggest non-event event I have ever witnessed. The silence on Rhee is deafening. I don’t think she’ll be scheduling another visit to Los Angeles too soon.
I know there was some press there but I don’t know who. I recognize LA Times reporters and I don’t recall them being there. They haven’t published anything and it’s Saturday.
This may be an indication that Rhee is losing her influence. Maybe John Merrow’s reporting is having an effect on things:
http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6232
And what was Bryan Ferry’s kid doing in your kitchen????
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Having a snack!
I really Rhee would get called out for the fraud she is at those speaking engagements.
Could we have audience challengers at each of Rhee’s speaking engagements to call her out for the fraud she is?
Linda, the devil buys so cheap for what they get and so many are ready to do it that it is soooo easy for them. We are so corrupt here and with the influence of Gates, Broad, Walton in so many districts and having perverted the top management of medium to large districts it is easy to have them standing in line to get their piece of the action. We are so corrupt it is beyond belief when I do the math on the numbers. They have gotten away with this because no one does serious work especially on the money. I never see competent content on this on this blog. Educational issues all day long. No one knows the money. Money=programs+salaries=education+teachers.
George,
“I never see competent content on this on this blog. I never see competent content on this on this blog.”
I challenge you to refute Noel Wilson’s work which I repeatedly post as anything less than “competent comment”.
Although it appears you are one of our anti-idiocy folks, by your statement above you have discredited yourself.
Duane
Not sure why I got a double comment so disregard either the first or the second version of George’s quote.
Will anyone during Rhee’s propaganda tour demand that she answer for the cheating scandal in DC schools that happened under her watch and the shameful, deceptive WHITEWASH of an “investigation” that followed?
Very interesting comment on the lack of reporting on Rhee. Hadn’t thought about that and in fact none of us knew about the visit. Last year, the one on George1la, was packed in the Kennedy High School Auditorium, at the old Ambassador Hotel site, and Lenny Isenburg and I videoed it in digital and it is total at George1la. If she has gone down that much here what is really happening? Is she being held up with money alone? Why not advertised and a large turnout? Last time it was packed. Let’s hope this is a sign of the times. I can tell you this after the last time in L.A. when Duncan tried to trick us it did not turn out so well and the same with Steven Brill as he literally ran from his book signing after I confronted him in the auditorium and they got real angry that I would ask those kind of questions. His whole speech he read notes. Would you need notes if you wrote the book? Being a nice guy is not always the best avenue especially when they are not nice guys. I wish we had back the days when you could discuss disagreements. That does not exist where I am or what I see. So tactics must change or you lose all.
We need 100 George Buzzzetti’s
Be one yourself!
The money connection is strong. Its Duncan, Rhee, Broad, Gates, Bloomberg. These irrational decisions that are being made are to line someone’s pocket. Thank goodness for people like Helen Gym who oppose this illegal grab for our public schools. Yes, we need to fight this and parents, teachers and the public are beginning to understand the problems with these deformers. For those of us, fighting in our own ways, to stop this destruction of public education, keep fighting, our cause is right and we owe it to our students
“Well behaved women rarely make history”
I love to hear about “no-excuse” schools. Remember when public schools could have discipline.
NO, I don’t. Can’t have it now and we’ve never had it.
Okay turn off the sarcasm.
Well, if it isn’t the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gourme of school privitization. . . . taking their show on the road and wow-ing audiences all over mainstream America.
Tickets? Tickets? Anyone have any tickets?
I gues that was pretty insulting to Mr. Lawrence and his lovely late wife.
Sarcasm aside, this young woman who spoke out was exceptionally articulate. I hope she represents the true cross section of her generation, who will bear horrendous burdens from previous generation ruling elite, and who will carry the torch. This student is the hope and dreams of a better, back-to-normal America.
I am a carmudgeonly older pessimist with some guarded and growing optimism. This young woman fuels my optimism . . . . She also motivates me to fight even harder . . .
Robert…Tickets? I ordered 5 for the Philadelphia TownHall, with the intention of using none of them. I have chosen instead to protest on the street outside the theater with a gathering of colleagues, each a holder of multiple ticket orders.. Instead of wasting our time inside to hear the blither of lies and well-rehearsed talking-mush of Ms. Rhee et al. we will make our voices heard outside in the night air where our chances of raising consciousness is much more likely than inside. We ordered a slew of tickets between us, just so to let all go unused…a silent protest in itself. Imagine, if 150 folks each order 5 tickets and do not enter…we will have trashed 750 tickets…and have caused at least a few seats in the theater to be empty. Ms. Rhee has nothing to say to me, nor I to her. We exist on separate planes; mine spurs learning for I teach; hers spurs misinformation for she deceives. We know why she comes. She comes for the fame and the audience. Many of us refuse to give her either. Ready, aim, fire.
Any way to make this into a poster or several posters or just print and pass out?
No, use them and go inside and pull a Ray McGovern, a la Hilary Clinton!!
Brilliant! A much better use of resources. YOU are a leader. Try and get out the word to major groups and espcially the caucuses like MORE that are trying to reinvent the unions. Try to organize parent groups as well.
The one thing we can count on Rhee is her narcissism. . . . it is to our advantage.
How about a no-excuse reformer for a change? Apparently they always get a pass.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20130906/NEWS04/309060022/Indiana-report-says-Tony-Bennett-s-changes-F-school-grades-were-consistently-applied-
Rheeifornication… Gatesifornication…Broadifornication…T-shirts, please.
I love your thinking.
Teach to the contract…………then occupy the schools…………..then………
“See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.”
― Noam Chomsky
I fear greatly that America is turning into a tinder box . . . . i am really frightened about this.
This was posted in Edweek by the mom of a murdered Sandy Hook child:
Nelba Marquez-Greene’s 6-year-old daughter Ana Grace, who was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on Dec. 14, 2012.
As another school year begins and old routines settle back into place, I wanted to share my story in honor of the teachers everywhere who care for our children.
I lost my 6-year-old daughter Ana Grace on Dec. 14, 2012, in the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. My son, who was in the building and heard the shooting, survived.
While waiting in the firehouse that day to hear the official news that our daughter was dead, my husband and I made promises to ourselves, to each other, and to our son. We promised to face the future with courage, faith, and love.
As teachers and school employees begin this new year, my wish for you is that same courage, faith, and love.
It takes guts to be a teacher. Six brave women gave their lives trying to protect their students at Sandy Hook. Other teachers were forced to run from the building, stepping over the bodies of their friends and colleagues, and they came right back to work.
When I asked my son’s teacher why she returned, she responded, “Because they are my kids. And my students need me now more than ever.” She sent daily updates on my son’s progress, from his behavior to what he’d eaten for lunch. And four months later, when my son finally smiled one day after school, I asked him about it. His response? “Mom. My teacher is so funny. I had an epic day.”
While I pray you will never find yourself in the position of the teachers at Sandy Hook, your courage will support students like my son, who have lived through traumas no child should have to.
Your courage will support students who are left out and overlooked, like the isolated young man who killed my daughter. At some point he was a young, impressionable student, often sitting all alone at school. You will have kids facing long odds for whom your smile, your encouraging word, and your willingness to go the extra mile will provide the comfort and security they need to try again tomorrow.
When you Google “hero,” there should be a picture of a principal, a school lunch worker, a custodian, a reading specialist, a teacher, or a bus monitor. Real heroes don’t wear capes. They work in America’s schools.
Being courageous requires faith. It took faith to go back to work at Sandy Hook after the shooting. Nobody had the answers or knew what would come tomorrow, but they just kept going. Every opportunity you have to create welcoming environments in our schools where parents and students feel connected counts.
Have faith that your hard work is having a profound impact on your students. Of the 15,000 personal letters I received after the shooting, only one stays at my bedside. It’s from my high school English teacher, Robert Buckley.
But you can’t be courageous or step out on faith without a deep love for what you do.
Parents are sending their precious children to you this fall. Some will come fully prepared, and others not. They will come fed and with empty bellies. They will come from intact homes and fractured ones. Love them all.
When my son returned to school in January, I thought I was going to lose my mind. Imagine the difficulty in sending your surviving child into a classroom when you lost your baby in a school shooting. We sent him because we didn’t want him to be afraid.
We sent him because we wanted him to understand that while our lives would never be the same, our lives still needed to move forward.
According to the 2011-12 National Survey of Children’s Health, nearly half of America’s children will have suffered at least one childhood trauma before the age of 18. They need your love.
A few weeks before the shooting, Ana Grace and I shared a special morning. Lunches were packed and clothes were picked out the night before, so we had extra time to snuggle. And while I lay in bed with my beautiful caramel princess, she sensed that I was distracted and asked, “What’s the matter, Mom?” I remember saying to her, “Nothing, baby. It’s just work.” She looked at me for a very long time with a thoughtful stare, then she told me, “Don’t let them suck your fun circuits dry, Mom.”
As you begin this school year, remember Ana Grace. Walk with courage, with faith, and with love. And don’t let them suck your fun circuits dry.
Wow, more powerful words have never been spoken.
Thank you Nelba Marquez-Greene.
And my heart is with you and your family.
I was at the Town Hall in Los Angeles. There was no discussion. Audience members had to fill out question cards and submit them in boxes. The moderator picked questions to pose to the 3 speakers, Rhee, Perry, Parker, then the person who submitted the question was able to get the mic for 2 minutes to pose the question. In all, I think about 8 questions were asked, and many of them were softball type questions like “I’m a teacher and what suggestions would you have for me to make more of a difference for my students?” The 3 speakers controlled the conversation, while audience members sat and listened. No back and forth discussion. Some got annoyed and yelled out trying to challenge the speakers or give another view on tenure and unions and vouchers and more, but they were hushed quickly from the rest of the crowd and the moderator.
I’d estimate the crowd to be 60% pro-Rhee and 40% opposed based on the clapping to responses.
Hannah Nguyen only got to speak because she held up a sign that said “The best way to put students first is by listening to them.” Security quickly came to her and took the sign away. But then George Parker said he wanted to hear what she had to say. I guess I respected that. She then gave her eloquent speech that is on YouTube. There was wild applause after that. It was a breath of fresh air after nearly 2 hours of listening to Rhee, Parker, Perry spout typical reform talking points that sound wonderful, but when you consider and analyze their policy position there’s a lot of problems. From the video, it looks as if Rhee and friends got very uncomfortable after Hannah spoke. Hannah then put duct tape on her own mouth (not shown in video). Right afterwards, Rhee and Students First handlers quickly approached her and Hannah and Rhee had a discussion. I wonder what was said.
Sometimes it’s the children who speak truth to the world so vividly it shames the adults.
I would like to see the Philadelphia piece of this posting, particularly Helen Gym’s input, in a separate posting. What is happening in Philadelphia is almost beyond comprehension.
Well, thanks for the update on the Erase to the Top Tour, everyone.
Ms. Rhee has certainly shown us how to run a school system. Simply channel the Red Queen. Run about yelling, “Off with their heads,” and practice, yourself, the following mental training:
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying.” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
The girl in the video at the Michelle Rhee in L.A. was outstanding. Could not put it better.
I almost never say anything bad about anything on comments against the CC and such. It seems that almost no one knows much about the money and where it goes. I have spent over 22 years on that. I have given and I have not seen it from anyone else the budgets of Chicago, LAUSD, N.Y., Washington, D.C. and have analyzed them. I have not seen anyone else push this important educational issue. I bust billions just here at LAUSD and much more across the state with documented proof. I am disturbed that this is not happening across the country. No money=no education. Want to try it without that? We are winning here. No one can do it on their own as we know here working in many different fields and with many different people at all levels. It takes organization and dedication. Always has and always will. No one else pushed CDE and Wested with their illegal operation of the LCFF in California and has done the spreadsheets on the terrible districts who obtained the Federal CORE Schools Waiver. If you do not look you do not know. This is how I find things. I have a close friend in special education who has been at it for over 40 years as have our other special ed friends who have been there from the beginning. She brings up a question and I say “Let me search it” I do and discover what I never even expected. This is all from the simplest questions such as what is the variation of revenue/district and how many enrolled and how many actually come, ADA. This is how I get my biggest finds. Almost all by accident from simple questions. With all the foundation money and highly paid people out there how is it that at the DOE and all these foundations and professional people out there they do not know these simple important issues and answers? Not an accident. The response always is we have never seen anything like that. The reason I am saying this is that I do not make my living from this and it is disturbing with this situation of no one doing the simplest work especially the financial work.
If educators do not deal with the financial factor they are finished as when all the money is gone what happens next?
Diane,
Do you know that the day you speak in
Philly is Citizenship Day? Just fyi.