Chicago’s Superintendent Barbara Byrd-Bennett knows better, but she is following orders. Just following orders.
The “independent panel” that she convened advised her to go full steam ahead.
Who will be hurt? African-American children, African-American families and communities.
Barbara, don’t do it.
Barbara, tell Rahm no.
Barbara, you know this is wrong.
Serve the children, not the corporations, hedge fund managers, and entrepreneurs.
Barbara. Listen to the children.
Barbara, you can be a national hero.
Use your voice and your talents for good.
Get on the right side of history.
It’s not too late.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Barbara is going to follow her boss and keep her job and her paycheck. She is not going
to do the ethical thing because she, like the others are following the adage ‘money makes
the blind see.”
Just ask the three Chicago crew thugs who are destroying public education: Obama, Duncan
and Rham Emanuel. They worship $$$ at the expense of destroying public schools for students.
Barbara is the epitome of those who follow the corporates and won’t make waves for fear of
losing their job and source of income. God forbid they should follow what is right & practice
integrity and ethical behavior.
It seems those days are gone…Money talks and everything else walks….
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She’s a Broadie and Gatesie –bought and paid for long ago. http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=4017
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“Money makes the blind see”? From what I’ve seen, money blinds the perceptive.
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Sad day for the memory of the people who built those schools. Maybe they thought of it as more than just a building, but an ernest gift of their labor towards the American meritocracy.
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Educational Hegemony in Chicago! Hegemony is the complete cultural domination of one group by another…ie the 1% over everyone else’s right to an education in their own community that they paid for with their tax dollars.
Why is everyone sucking up to this Pearson entity (for lack of a better word)? Why aren’t they thinking about their own children, their grandchildren, their nieces and nephews, in other words why aren’t they thinking about the children? What kind of future do they see in education when this mess is over (a Walmart school on every corner and the one they closed last year on the other side of the street empty)? Why does it seem like everyone from the top to the bottom of this ‘public school take over’ has been paid off? or is terrified of saying no?
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The super-rich seem to assume that, like themselves, everyone has a price. They do not understand people with principles, who feel they have a higher calling and were placed on this earth to do something more important than amassing wealth.
Money in the hands of the 1% is like a gun in the hands of a robber. The sole purpose is to intimidate, manipulate and exert control over others. The main difference between the two is that robbers don’t typically aim to destroy entire communities and the people who devote their lives to the children growing up in them, while claiming to be helping everyone there.
Whoever said that white collar crimes do not involve violence has never been assaulted by a suit.
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It’s too late.
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John White and BESE acting up again in Louisiana. The Jindalclones have a majority (paid for by Jindal) on BESE and Chas Roemer, the president, basically told Lottie Beebe to shut up so they could pass the budget. Of course his own children are safely ensconced in parochial schools. He is a lawyer and has plenty of money because his daddy was once governor. Now they want to tie funding given to special ed. kids based on their academic achievement. They were “concerned” because only 27% graduate with a diploma. Of course there is no Special Education Diploma in Louisiana so if you are MR you are pretty unlikely to get one. I would like to see that academic achievement thing explained to moderate and severe/profound kids in functional programs. I guess they’ve already screwed up the regulars as much as they can so now they are going after Special Ed’s money. This is why every superintendent should have special ed. certification of some type and at least a year or two working with kids with special needs.
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:10:09 +0000 To: pigbestdog@hotmail.com
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