The Tennessee Mama Bears did some research. They wanted to know who was giving all those “likes” to the StudentsFirst Facebook page.
Here is what they found. It is hilarious.
Check out the graphics.
Momma Bears has often wondered about the gullible people who fall for the StudentsFirst sales pitch. StudentsFirst is an underhanded, astroturf organization funded by corporate billionaires (HERE and HERE). How on earth do they have over 75,000 “likes” on Facebook? The people commenting on their posts obviously don’t agree with them (read them when you need a laugh, it is pretty funny). They rarely get any “likes” at all on their posts despite having 75,000 “members” on their facebook page.
Well, we found the answer… those gullible people were really not people at all!!!
StudentsFirst’s Facebook “likes” were bought from Bangladesh!!!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Facebook is an alternate universe where people manipulate their own lives to make others envious. In truth, life is hard. We all have struggles we face at some point in our life. My daughter is a social worker. She’s shared data with me that indicates that roughly 25% of the population suffers from some degree of mental illness. Funny that you never see posts on Facebook from people desperately seeking help. Instead, everyone has tons of friends, happy pets, and life is nothing but a bowl of cherries. At least the poor in Bangladesh made some money to help them in their daily struggles.
Great post, by the way. Made my day.
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It’s unethical for Rhee to pay the poor in Bangladesh to mislead US public school parents and taxpayers by using social media fraud.
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Rhee needs cheater’s rehab.
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Make the news go viral by sending information about Rhee’s fake Bangladesh “likes” to every state legislator, newspaper, and public school parent organization across the US.
Goal: Students”First” will shut down the fake facebook page.
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$tudent$ La$t really doesn’t care that this has been discovered, they could not care less that parents will be insulted by this fraud. No one at $tudent$ La$t will be fired because of this, it will just be SOSDD there and on to the next scam. Even the legislators who may have been fooled will look the other way once the campaign donations clear their accounts. This is yet another example of the shamelessness of their SOP Of serial lies. The fish rots from the head down.
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I don’t know if you’ll be able to see this in the link, but I asked on SF’s Facebook page and got a response that they did NOT purchase the “likes”. I’m assuming that is an official response. Not saying it’s the truth, just pointing out that it was their official response to me:
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This might have been a prank, or seven somebody’s black op. The Alabama tweets look like they were bought all at once just before March 9. Would $tudents La$t have been that dumb?
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YES – they are that dumb as a result of desperation. Rhee’s star is dimming.
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Here’s what they’re saying:
source (status for 3/20/2014)
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Blaming others for the “likes” – similar to Rhee’s spin on the test fraud in DC.
Keep it simple and follow the 501c4 money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/05/13/what-is-a-501c4-anyway/
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Isn’t Bangladesh one of the places where nefarious U.S. corporations outsource all the crap they want to pawn back off on all of us?
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Just for the record…
Momma Bears would never ever ever ever ever,
not in a million years,
no way, no how,
buy a single “like” on Facebook for StudentsFirst.
We wouldn’t spend a penny on that organization.
Not even if they gave us all new minivans.
Not even if they offered to clean our houses and do our laundry so we can spend more time blogging.
Not even if they gave our neighborhood schools thousands of dollars so we wouldn’t have to do cookie dough & wrapping paper fundraisers to pay for art supplies, music instruments, and playgrounds for students.
http://www.mommabears.org/1/post/2014/03/just-for-the-record.html
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The “Bill Gates” and “Melinda Gates” FB pages show Dhaka, Bangladesh as most popular city also.
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