Steven Singer wrote a post about the top ten reasons that school choice is no choice. A bad choice. A failing choice.
Imagine his surprise when he was he was attacked by a surrogate for the Koch brothers!
Steve begins:
“You know you’ve made it when the Koch Brothers are funding a critique of your work.
“Most of the time I just toil in obscurity.
“I sit behind my computer furiously pounding away at the keys sending my little blog entries out onto the Interwebs never expecting much of a reply.
“Sure I get fervent wishes for my death.
“And the occasional racist diatribe that only tangentially has anything to do with what I wrote.
“But a response from a conservative Web magazine funded by the world’s most famous billionaire brothers!?
“I guess this is what the big time feels like!
“The article appeared in The Federalist, an Internet publication mostly known for anti-LGBT diatribes and climate change denial. But I had the audacity to write something called “Top 10 Reasons School Choice is No Choice.”
“I had to be taken down.
“And they had just the person to do it – far right religious author Mary C. Tillotson.
“You may remember her from such hard hitting pieces as “How Praying a Novena Helped Me Process This Election,” “Sometimes, Holiness is Boring,” and “Why It’s Idiotic to Blame Christians for the Orlando Attack.”
This week her article is called “Top 10 Reasons HuffPo Doesn’t Get School Choice.”
“Which is kinda’ wrong from the get-go.
“Yes, I published my article in the Huffington Post, but it is not exactly indicative of the editorial slant of that publication. Sure, HuffPo leans left, but it routinely published articles that are extremely favorable to school choice. Heck! Michelle Rhee is a freakin’ contributor!
“So I don’t think it’s fair to blame HuffPo for my ideas on school choice. A better title might have been “Top 10 Reasons Singer Doesn’t Get School Choice,” but who the Heck is Singer and why should anyone care!?
“Then she gives a quick summary of how my whole piece is just plain wrong: “Steven Singer of The Huffington Post would have you believe that when parents have more choices, they have fewer choices.”
“That’s like writing “Steven Singer of Consumer Reports would have you believe buying a used car means you may not be able to get anywhere.”
“I stand by that statement. They’re both scams, Mary. The perpetrators of school choice want to convince you to choose a school that gives you fewer choices than public schools do. Just like a used car salesmen may try to convince you to buy a clunker that won’t get you from point A to B.”
Steve then goes through his ten points and patiently explains to Mary why she is wrong.
Way to go, Steve! Now see if you can get Trump to blast you in a tweet!
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The Koch family includes Walton heirs and Bill Gates. It’s a triad of evil.
David Koch is on the Aspen Institute Board. Aspen’s education programs, like Pahara and Senior Congressional Education Staff Network, are funded by Gates.
Arkansas, where Walmart was founded and, where its headquarters are located, remains the 2nd poorest state in the nation. Bill Gates’ home state of Washington, has the most regressive tax system in the U.S. The poor pay a rate up to 7 times the rate that the Gates’ family pays. Jane Mayer, in her book, Dark Money, describes Koch’s success in destroying American democracy. To repeat- a triad of evil.
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Thanks for the reveal. For some reason, I had not followed the mutually supporting money flows.
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ALSO: Kansas, home of the Koch Brothers, is fast losing its public institutions.
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“The Eye of
SauronKoch”As Sauron’s evil eye
Surveys the Land of Shire
The blogging Singer guy
Attracts the Mordor fire
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The Singer Guy has done us a service. The Koch surrograte is not exactly the person whom anyone wshould trust to be informed about the issues, much less to care about their consequences for families and children.
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As I responded on the original:
Excellent critique of a supposed critique!!
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We should put Singer’s top ten anti-choice reasons on a T-shirt and wear them proudly.
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Hahahahaha! Congratulations Steven Singer!
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Steven Singer is GREAT. Thanks, Steven.
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This was my respond in his original post via a blog from veteran teacher/famous writer Guru Lloyd Lofthouse.
Salute veteran teacher Steven Singer.
I hope that your analysis can cultivate those greedy Charter Owners and Charter supporters/suckers.
Here is my mimic answer that I learn from Saint Gandhi to Christian missionary E. Stanley Jones about belief in Christ. ([QUOTE: “Oh, I don’t reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It is just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ”.])
To those greedy corporate and suckers who try to privatize American Best Public Education, from all public school supporters like veteran and conscientious educators, parents and students:
““Oh, WE don’t reject your “ORIGINAL DESIGNED” PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL. We love your “ORIGINAL DESIGNED” PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL. It is just that so many of you GREEDY, MANIPULATIVE corporate PRIVATE (=FOR PROFIT) OWNERS/OPERATORS are so UNLIKE your “ORIGINAL DESIGNED” PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL’s FOUNDER”
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One has to wonder if Tillotson read her own critique critically before she turned it in. Apparently no one else did. Singer demolished her “arguments” so easily it was embarrassing.
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