Crazy Crawfish is one of those amazing Louisiana bloggers who refuses to be bought, intimidated, or silenced.
He used to work in the data division of the Louisiana Department of Education. He reached a point where his conscience told him he had to work somewhere else.
Now he has a blog where he repeatedly shines his spotlight on the spin coming from his old department.
He keeps fighting for kids, fighting for public education, fighting for honest data.
Why does he keep fighting?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Just posted a comment on Crazy’s blog. (He is, indeed, an Education Hero, & if anyone needs heroes in ed., it’s Louisiana).
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I admire fighters like Crawfish and Diane. I’ve spent 9 years in education: 5 as a teacher and 4 getting my ed degree, and I decided to walk away last June. Our culture is so anti-teachers, anti-intellectual, and anti-public sector. I couldn’t take the negativity anymore. I guess that is the Rhee-formers point.
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Best line: “To them, Gates, Dell, Waltons, Bloomberg, Broad, Mudoch, et al, I say buck up, and grow a pair you elitist self-serving cowards. This is the reality. You are a part of the problem, and your work is making all of these problems much, much worse. If it’s not by design it might as well be.”
My two cents: Grow a pair, get a spine, and a HEART while you’re at it, cowards, pompous asses and egotistical blowhards.
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LIKE!
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I couldn’t have said it better.
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Not about this, but worth knowing:
Federal Judge Orders Michelle Rhee Suit to Go Forward, will Broaden to Concealment and Fraud Claims:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10586920.htm
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Thank you crawfish. Keep fighting!
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Nobel passion and commitment. Sometimes I wonder if this entire Reform movement is a really bad reality show and we don’t know it. I truly think that they know exactly what they are doing. One cannot disenfranchise thousands of teachers and millions of school children, receive years of negative feedback from experts, kids and parents, and still continue to trample over bodies to accomplish their mission. Sociopathic behaviors with self serving profits. Is this the capitalistic nightmare unchecked?
Teachers are vulnerable because they care for kids, protect kids and are dedicated to the potential future of their students. Most of us who began teaching in the late 1960s with our ‘make the world a better place’ philosophy, are or have retired. Younger teachers have inherited one of the most difficult professions with little hope for improvement any time soon. TFA teachers are in and out without lasting Impact on changing education.
The Atlanta Public School cheating scandal is the current news, but the Reformers, who have blood on their hands, will move right on without blinking.
Although, I think that all this seems very bleak, I stay committed to the cause. Don’t know when to quit?
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Crazy, you ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
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A great post by the crawfish!
I am sorry for CC and his readers, though. Seems Harlan migrated over there.
😉
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