Charles P. Pierce posted an astonishing piece about Campbell Brown on the Esquire politics blog that delves into her devotion to transparency, except where her donors are concerned. I cannot reveal the title of his article because it would violate one of the very few rules of this blog. I do not use certain four-letter words of ancient origin on the blog, nor do I permit others to do so. So, if you want to know what Pierce titled his article or what he said about Campbell Brown, open the link.

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Jon Awbrey says:

August 6, 2014 at 3:35 pm

It’s a 4-letter word — $$$$

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Stanley Silver says:

August 6, 2014 at 3:57 pm

Diane doesn’t accept that donors might want anonymity to avoid vicious personal attacks. Then, in the very same paragraph, she links to and participates in vicious personal attacks. Diane continues to be a master of unintended irony.

This blog is the secret weapon of education reformers trying to convince newcomers as to the vile nature of much of the anti-reform movement. Please keep up the good/bad work.

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- MathVale says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:01 pm
  
  Huh?
  
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- Mike Ombry says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:32 pm
  
  Anyone in the public sphere influencing public policy should have their ideas and motives scrutinized. It is the bread and butter of democracy.
  
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  - Mike Ombry says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 4:33 pm
    
    Attacking stupid ideas is much less vicious than the implementation of stupid education reforms.
    
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- Dienne says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:55 pm
  
  You’re probably one of those who believe that billionaires are the new Jews, right?
  
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- Bill F. says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 5:44 pm
  
  Bingo, Stanley. When you read this blog long enough, you realize that schools are run for the benefit of unionized teachers, not kids. And anyone who dares question this is some sort of file, evil, profiteering corporate boogeyman. It’s why they are losing.
  
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  - Linda says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 5:55 pm
    
    Then you read selectively Bill. We discuss best teaching for our children all the timeline And define losing because as you know if all for the kid$ and the civil rigth$ i$$ue of our time. And when and where did you teach?
    
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  - Linda says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 5:56 pm
    
    Typo all the time. Open your eyes and your mind.
    
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  - KrazyTA says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 6:36 pm
    
    Linda: what can you expect of those that arrogantly claim the mantle of the “new civil rights movement of our time” as they comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted?
    
    The truly vile aspect of all this is all the sneer, jeer and smear they inflict on the vast majority of teachers [and by extension, other public school staff] with their claims of widespread pedophilia and laziness and lack of compassion.
    
    There’s a pop psychology term for this: projection. They see in others what they feel in, and think of, themselves.
    
    In my work experience I somehow ended up with a few coworkers in different jobs in different states who would rant and rave about all the welfare Cadillacs parked on the street and those hordes of irresponsible unwed mothers breeding like rabbits and lazy bums sitting on the corners drinking their beer and panhandling for more booze.
    
    To be followed, shortly before or after April 15, with loud self-aggrandizing declarations of how they had cheated—their words, not mine!—on their income tax returns. When I would suggest that this pointed to the same sort of irresponsible, immoral and illegal behaviors they routinely condemned, they would come at me with what Dr. Raj Chetty would call the “Michael Jordan” of all retorts:
    
    “Everybody does it!”
    
    Well, I couldn’t and wouldn’t speak for “everybody” but I told each and every one of them that I didn’t and don’t do that. To which, of course, they responded with a furious distaste for having even one more word with me—in truth, it was a relief, since they had such a low opinion of everything else on the planet except themselves that they were what the acid heads of my youth would have called “downers.”
    
    The look on their faces of sheer disgust and disbelief and anger when I wouldn’t admit to participating in their cruel hypocrisy would have earned them Ocars for acting—but they weren’t acting. They were walking, talking, head-exploding caricatures of themselves and the “ideas” they espoused—need I add they weren’t generally well thought of by their coworkers or management?
    
    So it is, and so it has been, as a very old, very dead, and very Greek guy once said:
    
    “A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.” [Demosthenes]
    
    So some folks, against fact reason and logic, think this blog is the pits? Here’s a news flash: You have “choice and voice” [thank you, Chiara!].
    
    Exercise your options and don’t come back. You, and we, and everybody else will feel just fine.
    
    And just in case there’s an old coworker of mine involved in all this: please pay your taxes. It’s the law. Or at least quit bragging about breaking the law when you pontificate about lawbreakers.
    
    Keep writing. I’ll keep reading.
    
    😎
    
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  - Linda Johnson says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 7:51 pm
    
    Oh, “they” are not losing. The public will always support the people willing to serve our children in the classrooms. Just wait and see.
    
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  - Some DAM Poet (Devalue Added Model) says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 7:52 pm
    
    “The schools are run for teachers’
    
    The schools are run for teachers
    That’s why they make big bucks
    They earn at least six figures
    With bonuses of stocks
    
    The teachers are untouchable
    They’re way too big to fail
    They’re unions are unbustable
    And can’t be sent to jail
    
    We really need some ways and means
    To put them in their places
    Eliminating tenure schemes
    And firing without basis
    
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  - Linda says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 7:55 pm
    
    Love it. Nailed it again!
    
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  - Some DAM Poet (Devalue Added Model) says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 7:55 pm
    
    should be “Their unions are unbustable”
    
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  - Robert Rendo says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 9:06 pm
    
    Dear Bill F (F is for “Failure”):
    
    You should answer Linda’s question. Where did you teach and for how long? Do you have children, and did they attend public schools?
    
    Do you know how to articulate issues and discuss anything with any modicum of critical thought?
    
    You can question all you want. What you can also do is pose some salient ideas about what you think should be done to educate children . . . .
    
    Try using at least 4 of the 100 billion brain cells you have . . . . . Turn off the NFL reruns in TIVO and the Kardashians, and offer some real advice. . . otherwise, you’re giving reformers a bad name, and after Campbell Brown, do you really want to do that?
    
    I thought you wanted to help children. What happened?
    
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  - MathVale says:
    
    August 7, 2014 at 12:51 am
    
    Not sure about benefit of teachers, whatever that means. You mean schools pay teachers? What a concept. And, yes, there are people who place profits above all else. I’ll bet corporations DO care more about the students than teachers. After all, the business world gave us such child enriching products as Happy Meals, Justin Bieber, and Jarts. Hey, maybe you are on to something!
    
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  - dianeravitch says:
    
    August 7, 2014 at 1:35 am
    
    Bill F., oh, those rich and greedy teachers, with their fat $45,000 salaries and their ten-year-old cars! Forget about the 1%! They are busy outsourcing jobs and transferring their wealth to tax havens. Now about those teachers, in it for the rewards…..
    
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- Threatened Out West says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 6:48 pm
  
  If these distressed, sad, fabulously wealthy people can’t stand the heat, they should get out of the kitchen. They’re just trying to destroy my livelihood, where I make $45,000 a year before taxes. I have no sympathy for them experiencing “vicious personal attacks.” BTW, your definition of vicious and mine are two totally different things; I once had a student threaten to kill my baby while I was pregnant. THAT’S vicious. Our questions and statements are not.
  
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  - Some DAM Poet (Devalue Added Model) says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 7:54 pm
    
    should be “Their unions are unbustable”
    
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- Donna says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 7:15 pm
  
  As they write online. LOL.
  
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- democracy says:
  
  August 7, 2014 at 7:21 am
  
  @ Stanley and Bill F:
  
  What, exactly, are your ideas about public education?
  
  Please share them.
  
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Bill F. says:

August 6, 2014 at 4:08 pm

Juvenile. I can’t believe you linked this.

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- Linda says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:39 pm
  
  And appearing on tv tarnishing teachers and aligning us with pedophies isn’t juvenile? Share your indignation with all parties
  
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  - title one texas teacher says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 5:20 pm
    
    exactly Linda:)
    
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- Linda says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:47 pm
  
  “Juvenile” would be a huge step up for hedge funders. They’re rat-like, but far worse, because they lack a conscience, where there should be one.
  
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- Threatened Out West says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 6:52 pm
  
  As a debate coach, I can tell you that, actually, the article was well-reasoned and well written, with source material and links. I found it FAR above juvenile. You obviously have never worked with ACTUAL juveniles (were you even a juvenile?). Oh! I’m SO sorry for my “vicious personal attack.” (that last line was sarcasm, in case you missed it)
  
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  - KrazyTA says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 9:12 pm
    
    Threatened Out West: I am ashamed and appalled—shocked even!—that you have strayed outside the unbounded limits of CCSS ‘closet’ reading, er, ‘closed minded’ reading, er, whatever, and indulged in sarcasm.
    
    😱
    
    Next thing you know you’ll regale us with the benefits of independent thinking, the telling argument, the persuasive essay, the judicious use of facts both convenient and inconvenient, and other such antiquated relics of all those bygone eras that antedate this most cage busting achievement gap crushing 21st century.
    
    😳
    
    Ok, ok, I’m just as guilty as you. But if we can’t show how well the self-styled “education reformers” and their supporters ridicule and caricature themselves, what use sarcasm?
    
    😏
    
    See you at Pink Slip Bar & Grille.
    
    A, uh, certain Greek somebody thought you nailed it, perhaps remembering something he said: “False words are not only evil in themselves, they infect the soul with evil.”
    
    ¿? Socrates, natcherly. Bring your party toga but leave your drachmas at home. It’s his treat.
    
    😎
    
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  - Threatened Out West says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 9:24 pm
    
    Lol! Your praise for my comment means a lot to me, Krazy (and that WASN’T sarcasm).
    
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  - Some DAM Poet (Devalue Added Model) says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm
    
    I don’t know about anyone else, but i found the article to be quite rejuveniling.
    
    And TOW: no reason to apologize for the viscous attack– slow and sweet like molasses.
    
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- The Real One says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 7:10 pm
  
  Boy the trolls are out in full effect. Teachers are under attack because education is one of the last frontiers that has not been pillaged by the elite. Everything these bastards touch results in two things; chaos and a mass transfer of wealth from low income and middle class workers right into the pocket of the mega wealthy.
  
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  - Linda says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 8:27 pm
    
    Results in 4 things. #3 Decrease in GDP
    # 4 Misery
    
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- Steve B says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 10:36 pm
  
  Bill, you jumped all over this with anger…but the article really nails the issue squarely on the head…So schools are “run for the benefit of unionized teachers, not kids”???…I would rather public school teachers educating my children, rather than the nonsense you defend…”That’s why they are losing”???…Your seething hostility, I do believe, should be a solid indicator that public education, and tenure for professional educators, will eventually win in the end.
  
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Brandy C. Judkins says:

August 6, 2014 at 4:12 pm

Thank you for sharing and sorry it seems to have brought out the deformers. Esquire isn’t on my TBR list, but Charles P. Pierce now is.

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Linda says:

August 6, 2014 at 4:40 pm

Go Vermont, kick Arne to the curb:

Click to access EDU-Letter_to_parents_and_caregivers_AOE_8_8_14.pdf

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- Chiara says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 4:46 pm
  
  It’s wonderful.
  
  “Vermont does not agree with this federal policy nor do we agree that all our schools are low-performing”
  
  I laughed. I admit it 🙂
  
  This stuff is just outlandish. Stating it plainly and simply like that makes it so clear.
  
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Joanna Best says:

August 6, 2014 at 4:41 pm

I think the article is good.

I think it’s a win win for Campbell: she gets to be a celebrity again and the union busters get to make their case. Good points about teachers being caught between property taxes and government budgets.

The read I am excited about (just ordered it) is called Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism by Molly Worthen (history professor at UNC-CH). Because the reason folks like Campbell Brown are after busting unions (aside from the money that pays for it) is the elected officials who appeal to a radical Christian right. In NC I have tried to find empathy for this mindset so I can crack why it isn’t good. . .because I know it isn’t good. But I like what the gist of this book is saying because it demands that we consider the depth of feelings behind the radical right, even when we cannot intellectually comprehend it.

And, for those not in education, Campbell is just a pretty face back on the nightly news and this article for Esquire (which lots of men do read, including my husband who knew exactly who Campbell Brown was from her news days, is mildly interested in the tenure subject from an intellectual standpoint but otherwise is moving on to a sports article or something that hits the pocketbook a little more) does a good job of calling her out for who and what she is and who and what she is not.

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joe prichard says:

August 6, 2014 at 4:55 pm

Stanley…”the secret weapon of education reformers trying to convince newcomers as to the vile nature of much of the anti-reform movement.” I probably should not divulge the most effective “weapon” which is used by “education reformers” regarding Diane……DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, MENTION HER NAME, OR LINK ANYONE TO THIS SITE! TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE…PRETEND SHE DOES NOT EXIST.

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- Mickey Moore (@IAmMickeyMoore) says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 5:29 pm
  
  It’s funny you mention that. I’m teaching a one week summer teachers class about educational ‘philosophy’. This is the second time I’ve taught it. It comes prepackaged, all the books, articles, videos and a guide to get you through the day. I was going through the articles for each day before the class started and I noticed that one of the articles from the year before had been removed. For one of the assignments (that I created) there were two very dated articles and one by Diane. Low and behold this year only the two very dated article remain. Diane’s article was missing. This caused a bit of a problem for me as the assignment was to read one of the two dated articles and compare/contrast it with Diane’s article…well now I only have two pretty bad articles to share…I wonder why Diane’s was removed (and yes it is the only article removed from a pack of around 40 for the week).
  
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  - Duane Swacker says:
    
    August 8, 2014 at 8:51 am
    
    Name some names. Who is the publisher?
    
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Robert Rendo says:

August 6, 2014 at 5:01 pm

Boy, that Campbell Brown is such a fupping mass ode . . . And who the fupp do her backers think they are? . . . .

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title one texas teacher says:

August 6, 2014 at 5:21 pm

I love how frank this article is: emperor meet “clothes”.

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Alan says:

August 6, 2014 at 5:23 pm

I recently learned the archaic word “rawgabbit,” which describes people who speak with self-assured confidence in topics about which they are completely ignorant. Between Arne, Campbell, and those “View” ladies, I’m getting a lot of use out of this new-to-me word.

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John a says:

August 6, 2014 at 5:38 pm

Charlie Peirce is a long time gadfly journalist who long ago sharpened his journalist skills on shills more idiots than Campbell Brown. Reading Peirce’s piece provoked two thoughts: wouldn’t it have been a joyous hoot to turn loose Hunter Thompson on the likes of the ‘deformers; and when, if ever, will the main stream press do their journalistic jobs with integrity when they writes about the ‘deformers’ ?

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- democracy says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 8:21 pm
  
  Rest assured, if there is such a place as heaven, Hunter Thompson is crafting a delicious piece of the likes of Campbell Brown, Michelle Rhee, Wendy Kopp, Joel Klein, Arne Duncan, and all the rest. Maybe Jerry Bracey is helping him.
  
  But you’ll have to wait til later to read it.
  
  And if there’s not, and there likely isn’t, then we’ll have to make do with Charlie Pierce and others like him….and there are not many.
  
  Think about what now passes for the term, “education reporter.”
  Jay Mathews at The Post? Big eye roll. The Oh-So-Talented Amanda Ripley? Gag. How about Julia Ryan or Jessica Lahey at The Atlantic? Oh please. Or even Emily Richmond at The Educated Reporter? Arrggh.
  
  But you ask a good question. Why is the quality of reporting on public education so poor?
  
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  - FLERP! says:
    
    August 6, 2014 at 8:51 pm
    
    Why wouldn’t it be? Has the quality of reporting on public education been particularly good in the past in your view?
    
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  - dianeravitch says:
    
    August 7, 2014 at 1:24 am
    
    FLERP,
    
    Fred HECHINGER and Edward Fiske were outstanding education editors at the NY Times. Michael Winerip wrote a great weekly education column for the Times. The Times no longer has an education editor or an education columnist.
    
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  - democracy says:
    
    August 7, 2014 at 7:00 am
    
    @ FLERP:
    
    Perhaps there never was a “good old days” for education reporting, but in the recent past there have been good reporters, as Diane points out.
    
    And then there was Gerald Bracey, and others like him, who actually knew stuff and read stuff, and thought about it critically and reflectively, and then wrote about it fairly.
    
    There are people like that now, though most do not seem to be in the mainstream press. Instead, we get people like the “Talented” Amanda Ripley. Or Jay Mathews, who seems to have a very difficult time grasping research. Or newbies like Julia Ryan at The Atlantic or Allie BIdwell at US News & World Report, or who appear to be completely clueless, simply parroting news releases.
    
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  - Duane Swacker says:
    
    August 8, 2014 at 8:56 am
    
    “Rest assured, if there is such a place as heaven, Hunter Thompson is crafting a delicious piece of the likes of Campbell Brown, Michelle Rhee, Wendy Kopp, Joel Klein, Arne Duncan, and all the rest.”
    
    And what awaits the edudeformers and GAGAers:
    
    Karmic Gods of Retribution: Those ethereal beings specifically evolved to construct the 21st level in Dante’s Hell. The 21st level signifies the combination of the 4th (greed), 8th (fraud) and 9th (treachery) levels into one mega level reserved especially for the edudeformers and those, who, knowing the negative consequences of the edudeformers agenda, willing implemented it so as to go along to get along. The Karmic Gods of Retribution also personally escort these poor souls, upon their physical death, to the 21st level unless they enlighten themselves, a la one D. Ravitch, to the evil and harm they have caused so many innocent children, and repent and fight against their former fellow deformers. There the edudeformers and GAGAers will lie down on a floor of smashed and broken ipads and ebooks curled in a fetal position alternately sucking their thumbs to the bones while listening to two words-Educational Excellence-repeated without pause for eternity.
    
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- NJ Teacher says:
  
  August 6, 2014 at 9:01 pm
  
  Never! We have nothing to offer them.
  
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Joe Nashville says:

August 6, 2014 at 7:39 pm

Oh my! He used the BIG word in his title… But it’s a great article.

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- Duane Swacker says:
  
  August 8, 2014 at 8:58 am
  
  He used fck, not the “F Bomb” (as the teachers and administrators in my school call it). I was disappointed!
  
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democracy says:

August 6, 2014 at 8:11 pm

Oh, I’d say that Charlie not only described the flat-out hypocrisy (and lies) of Campbell Brown, but he also pretty much gave her a rousing rhetorical reaming….which she so richly deserves.

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- Duane Swacker says:
  
  August 8, 2014 at 8:59 am
  
  “. . . rousing rhetorical reaming. . . ”
  
  Another nominee for quip of the year here at DRlandia!
  
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Mark K says:

August 6, 2014 at 8:47 pm

Just saw a segment on MSNBC (which I don’t really watch anymore due to its long-standing press release journalism on corporate ed reform, but happened to be waiting on something else), where Prof Levitt (Loyola Law?) likened the voter ID push by right-wing groups to someone having a cold (very small problem) and being prescribed amputation of a limb. This is also a good analogy for the anti-due process move of Brown and others (again, why I don’t make of habit of MSNBC: how do they see this for voting but not for teaching)

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- democracy says:
  
  August 7, 2014 at 7:10 am
  
  Chris Matthews had an absolutely horrible segment on the other evening with Campbell Brown and David Boies (shame on you , David) to discuss teacher tenure.
  
  That segment clarified what an ass Matthews is. Seriously, it forces one to consider if the gray matter between Matthews’ ears is getting squishy.
  
  Brown told the same lies as she’s told elsewhere. Boise went along with it – makes one wonder if Boies is really as “smart” as he’s portrayed.
  
  Matthews stoked it all, saying at the outset that it’s nearly impossible to fire bad teachers, and using Waiting for Superman as his chief frame of reference.
  
  You can watch the piece here:
  
  http://www.msnbc.com/hardball-with-chris-matthews/watch/should-teacher-tenure-laws-be-overhauled–315043907744
  
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S. Smith says:

August 6, 2014 at 11:45 pm

The comments on Esquire for the Pierce piece are encouraging. Smart, not a troll among them.

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jeanhaverhill says:

August 7, 2014 at 6:00 am

I appreciate your policy and I have always tried to follow it throughout my life (home and working experience).

In all good humor i wanted to point out that a climate scientist, revealing his worries about the methane in the Arctic and Siberia said that we are really …. and then he used the first letter and the last letter of the word (instead of the abbreviation in the Esquire article)…..

Climate Change , where there is so much denial and self-serving, and the educational domain where this is destructive change applied by Peterson and his PEPG group and the reformers who are mis-informing people…… I feel as a teacher and a human being that I am in that situation the climate scientist describes and I don’t know how to protect the grandchildren.

I do not use certain four-letter words of ancient origin on the blog, nor do I permit others to do so.

jeanhaverhill@aol.com

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- democracy says:
  
  August 7, 2014 at 7:11 am
  
  you don’t use the “bad” words, but we get your point….
  
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George N. Schmidt says:

August 7, 2014 at 7:35 am

Great Frigging piece! I’m glad I subscribe to the print edition of Esquire. My Gosh My Golly it’s great to have such a femaleparentloving reporter taking out against another whatusedtobethewordforafemalecanine attacking us in the great tradition of Eva Bruan, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Rhee. Sadly, though, why is it that these teacher bashers always sit sideways — er, thighways — when they pose, er lunaralmost — for the TV and TIME cameras. The real question now is what prop will TIME have Campbell holding when they give her that Michelle Rhee cover? I’d love to have a contest, since it definitely won’t be a protractor…

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- Duane Swacker says:
  
  August 8, 2014 at 9:10 am
  
  A dildo???
  
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  - George N. Schmidt says:
    
    August 8, 2014 at 9:46 am
    
    No… That would be an insult to an artifact as old as “civilization.” These vibrationists are the creations of our new age… And there is an infinite supply of them. So we can’t get too vibed out about any one, since when Campbell Brown is ousted, another wannabe will step up and get the spotlight…
    
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John a says:

August 7, 2014 at 9:30 am

Let’s get one thing straight: ‘Stanley Silvet’ and his pal, ‘Bill F’, are trolls, agente provocateurs, whose mission, as such, was to start a useless counter discussion
In the service of detracting blog posters from the arduous task at hand: to articulate a coherent, viable, anti ‘deform’, message that supports a discussion among posters who hold positions that often diverge or are otherwise in conflict. What is critical and makes this blog essential reading is that it is ‘friendly’ and available to educators and the ‘lay’ public.

Postings by the two Trollers is a testament to the success of this blog: it is impacting the conflict between those who support public education and those who would harm students, parents, teachers, schools and communities.

There are too many important issues that require engagement. It is a waste of time and energy to respond to Trolls.

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dianeravitch says:

August 7, 2014 at 10:33 pm

If the deformers hope to “silence” me by never mentioning my name–as one commenter said–they are playing a losing game. This blog has had nearly 14 million page views since April 2012. Not because of me, but because early on I recognized that many readers know more about what happens in schools than either me or the pundits. I made the conscious decision to turn the blog into a platform for discussion, and teachers and parents know that if they come here, they will be treated with respect.

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- Duane Swacker says:
  
  August 8, 2014 at 9:18 am
  
  And, again Diane, thanks for all you do!!!
  
  Hope your knee is better.
  
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