This comment came from a reader. Watch the video. It is not quite two minutes.
Diane–There is a very powerful video being sent around Facebook involving a mother rabbit rescuing her young from a black snake intent on taking their young lives. I believe this video, viewed by millions online, captures the essence of our public teachers fight against the evils of vulgar/divisive corporate deforms currently in favor by the political and monied classes.
Please watch the video, digest it, and then consider sharing it on your blog. It’s heroic on several levels. I believe this simple video has the power to help us better-frame the current public v. corporate narrative in powerful ways, as well as raise teacher/parent morale. *** Thanks for all the hard work you do – it does matter and is making a difference!
Best Regards,
Charlie Follis
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“Rabbits and Snakes”
Rabbits and snakes
Parents and Gates
Opt out it takes
To alter our fates
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Cannot open video.
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Strangely my computer won’t allow me to view this!! Apple!! Microsoft!! Hmmmmm…..
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i cannot access the video from either place in your blog… 😦
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Just google rabbit and snake.
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I don’t know. Is it really fair to equate a snake acting on its need to survive with corporate reformers acting on their greed to thrive?
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these links do not work
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Maybe this? —
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I hope that this video doesn’t result in black rat snakes (which is what it appears to be) being wantonly killed. Black snakes as they are commonly called can grow quite large, we had a six footer hanging around our house for a number of years. They can climb limbless large diameter trees quite high up, seen one at 20 ft up an oak tree. Black snakes will help keep the mice and rat populations down, and also have been known to eat poisonous snakes such at copperheads.
The rabbit and snake fight is just one example of what happens out in the “wild” every minute of every hour of everyday. It is normal and “natural” and in this instance the rabbit chased off the snake, after it appeared to have killed but not gotten the chance to eat two of the kits but I’d bet any amount of money that the snake will be back to have a meal within 24 hours. I’ve seen black snakes return before to get a meal.
There’s a reason for the saying “reproduce like rabbits”. Helps provide food for the snakes, hawks, owls, coyotes, bobcats and various other predators.
I draw no human connections or conclusions from the encounter! It is what it is.
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I’m with you, Duane. I get the appeal of the metaphor but wild animals are often anthropomorphized at their peril. Think “big, bad wolf”.
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Sorry, venomous not poisonous
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DS, the rabbit didn’t kill the snake but it sure harassed it effectively
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As any parent should. It doesn’t matter to “kill” the opposition but to effectively oppose them. So as a parent we should effectively oppose, i.e., opt out the opposition.
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This post reminded me of the following bit from the journal of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
[1632.] At Watertown there was (in the view of divers witnesses) a great combat between a mouse and a snake; and after a long fight, the mouse prevailed and killed the snake. The pastor of Boston, Mr. Wilson, a very sincere, holy man, hearing of it, gave this interpretation: That the snake was the devil; the mouse was a poor contemptible people, which God had brought hither, which should overcome Satan here, and dispossess him of his Kingdom.
LOL
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