A story in the Sacramento Bee speculates on Michelle Rhee’s future. The reporter, Christoper Cadelago, reviews her meteoric career as chancellor of the D.C. schools, her face on the cover of TIME (and Newsweek), her founding of StudentsFirst, then her decision to step down and devote herself to her husband’s career. Her new husband, Kevin Johnson, had been a superstar in basketball and when they married, was the popular mayor of Sacramento. There was talk that he might be the next governor of California.
Alas, the old rumors about sexual improprieties–the superstar and a teen–resurfaced along with a video of the girl being questioned about what the superstar did to her, as well as a new statement by the accuser, now an adult. The timing was not good for Mayor Johnson. ESPN was about to release a heroic film showing how he saved the local basketball team and kept it in Sacramento. ESPN cancelled the showing until it could figure out how to handle the latest uproar.
Lately, the story says, Mrs. Johnson has not been seen much.
“Michelle Rhee, the combative former D.C. public schools chancellor who founded the national advocacy group StudentsFirst, has retreated recently from public view.
“Rhee, who is married to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, was nowhere to be found at the downtown premiere of “Down in the Valley,” the shelved TV movie documenting Johnson’s successful campaign to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle. Rhee hasn’t been seen courtside with Johnson at Kings games.
“And she wasn’t by his side when Johnson, stung by the re-emergence of allegations that he molested a teenager, confirmed last month that he wouldn’t seek a third term at City Hall when his expires next year.”
The question is: What will Michelle Rhee Johnson do next?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I hope she resurfaces. Public education could use a bombt thrower or two. Hey, are there still those “padded cells” in Brooklyn for so-called teachers who can’t be fired no matter what they have done wrong? What say you, Diane?
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Do you mean the rubber room? The demeaning detention room for teachers created under Michael Bloomberg for veteran teachers who were either making too much money according to their principal’s budget or spoke out against new school reforms like common core? Most teachers who were sent their were never convicted of what they were accused of. It was a way for the mayor to demoralize teachers into quitting before they were eligible for their pensions. You have no clue.
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You have no clue. Teacher detaining centers or “rubber rooms” were set up by Bloomberg and Klein to demoralize teachers who were too expensive for their principal’s budget or spoke out against harmful new reforms like Common Core. Most teachers in the rubber room were never proven guilty for what they were accused. All in the name of money. Sad
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You’re in the wrong pew.
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Show me a parent who values education and respects teachers and I’ll show you a parent with smart kids. Conversely….
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Could she be evading prosecution?
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Rhee married “up”. Now that her husband may be totally discredited Rhee may divorce him to find another to help her rise to greater heights.
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I heard that Kim Jong-Un is looking for a nuclear wife.
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Hahaha … good one.
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I’ve said for years that Rhee/Johnson/Huffman is a spy implant sent by North Korea to ruin American public education so that NK can take its self designated place as the top dog of the world.
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First step to becoming like Supreme Leader, get a bad haircut and go heavy on Big Macs.
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“…her meteoric career….”
You mean one that plummeted downward like a massive space rock, leaving a gaping crater upon impact?
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Nice smack down, all the more so since it’s true!
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I consider Michelle Rhee to be of very poor character. And, like other such people, she’s likely suffering the consequences of her bad behavior right now.
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Oh, she won’t for long. She’ll be rehabilitated soon enough. All too soon, I’m sure.
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In terms of money, I agree that she’ll be OK. But I think she’ll pay a huge price for her personal decisions that, to me, are so shocking that I can’t put them in print.
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This is not why i subscribe to this newsletter. It is tabloid fodder.
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I disagree. Deadspin has published a lengthy, well-documented article about how Kevin Johnson, aided by his wife Michelle Rhee, have worked to undermine democratic govenance for personal gain in Sacramento and nationally, including the National Conference of Black Mayors. It certainly is a seamy story, but not one we ought to disreagard due to its salacious components. Johnson and Rhee are an ambitious power couple, with access to cash and influence. (And perhaps the ever-nimble Rhee is scrambling to exit and leave this scandal, like others such as the cheating in D.C., behind her before the brand is too tarnished.)
“A new scandal, though, is putting Johnson’s rise at serious risk. It involves the mayor replacing civil servants with private citizens funded by the Wal-Mart empire and tasked with the twin purposes of working to abolish public education and bring in piles of cash for Kevin Johnson.”
http://deadspin.com/whos-funding-kevin-johnsons-secret-government-1731005808
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Rhee had an enormous influence on public education and teachers. I would say all of it bad. Let’s not forget the many teachers she fired in D.C. for nothing more than political gain. How much damage was done to their reputations and families? I’m sure these people would not consider speculation on her future as tabloid fodder. In fact I would say it is very important to follow her and do what is best to prevent her from ever gaining a position of power over teachers again.
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Not really. Rhee is power hungry and since Johnson no longer will have the ability to bring in more charters and privateers, what good is he to her. She was absolutely devastated when the “strong mayor” provision was voted down, not giving her husband single power to make a decision.
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I hope she doesn’t go back to “abusing” the public education system.
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Who cares. Let discredited, disgraced deformers fade into obscurity where they belong. May Dz, Gates, Bloomberg, Broad, etc. follow her soon
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She needs to go to jail. If I abuse a kid I go to jail. If she does it , her picture gets on Time magazine.
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And are we going to blast Hilary for standing by her husband for his misdeeds?
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Lewinsky may have been an intern, but she wasn’t a fifteen year old girl.
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No, there’s far too many other things to blast her for.
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Agreed, Dienne.
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Way to deflect, changemaker. You think people here think HRC is the savior? No thank you.
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Love it, John.
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Swept under a rug, tape over mouth; karma.
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Swept under a rug, tape over mouth — karma.
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Taping students’ mouths closed, lying about her students’ test scores during the coffee break she spent in the classroom, slandering DC teachers and accusing them of sexual abuse (talk about projection!), widespread cheating on exams while Chancellor in DC, using her political connections to shut down investigations of her pedophile husband… Yes, she is one nasty piece of work.
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Hopefully, she will ride her broomstick off into the sunset.
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I hope she takes a lesson from Icarus and flies into the sun, that is, if she ever deigns to take wing again. It will be a very long time if ever before her crimes and cronyism are forgotten to the extent that rehabilitation will be possible in any measure. Thousands of people younger than she know her for the evil doer she is.
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Hmmm…
Viewers of this thread: forgive the extremely long comment, but sometimes you just have to let decency and honor and the facts have their way.
Okey dokey. What sort of moral fiber and grit and determination and competency did this now faded supernova of self-styled “education reform” show when she was flying high?
Let’s take the hardest self-serving data point she ever advanced—until she dropped it completely because not only was she unable to get hard copy or digital files to back up her fantastical assertion, she couldn’t get (after 20 years!) anyone to back up her claim to doing the education equivalent of walking on water. *BTW: she left out a very annoying but self-wounding detail: her co-teacher!*
Just what am I referring to? From an unimpeachably rheephorm-friendly source:
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As a Teach for America corps member in a Harlem Park Community School in Baltimore City, Michelle gained a tremendous respect for the hard work that teachers do every day. Over a two-year period she moved students scoring on average at the 13th percentile on national standardized tests to 90 percent of students scoring at the 90th percentile or higher. She also learned the lesson that would drive her mission for years to come: teachers are the most powerful driving force behind student achievement in our schools.
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Link: https://econclubmemphis.com/2013/08/12/michelle-rhee/
Now perhaps, dear viewers of this blog, you are thinking, if I refer y’all to someone like GF Brandenburg you are going to remind me that “studies show” that people for a “better education for all” aren’t any good with data analytics and such like complicated stuff.
Well, I’ll give you one link to the above mentioned blogger but many other folks have commented on the same fantastical claim—use “google” and if you don’t know what that is, time to stop perusing your CCSS non-contextual informational texts and learn to fire up a few brain cells.
Link: https://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/now-a-quiz-on-the-baltimore-rhee-ctbs-math-miracle/
No, I’ll take the percentile challenge myself and raise that Rhee 13th to a Rheeally high 90th by referencing an indisputably rheephorm-minded numbers & stats guy that proclaimed on this very website “Btw, my personal hero is Michelle Rhee.” Even above such rheephormistas as Arne Duncan and Joel Kline! How so? Because she’s a bully who abused her position as Chancellor of DCPS to humiliate and degrade others [my translation of his worshipful description of her].
Here is virginiasgp—His Own Bad Self!—taking his “personal hero” out to the woodshed for a well deserved, er, whatever he would call it…
His evisceration begins with “KrazyTA is trying to obfuscate once again.” He starts with “No teacher is going to raise a student from the 13th percentile in absolute test scores to the 90th percentile. Ain’t going to happen.” I leave the very public display of self-wounding to those interested in clicking on the link immediately following. *Wait for the parsing a la “I did not do SGP with the woman!”
Link: https://dianeravitch.net/2015/07/09/lyndsey-layton-arne-duncan-will-stay-on-until-the-last-buzzer/comment-page-1/
I could go on, e.g., her shabby display of incompetence and calling in political favors to cover up standardized testing scandals in DCPS and such, but again, there’s this new fangled thing called the internet and the world wide web and google and so on.
Ok, here’s a helpful link to a mild-mannered critic of Michelle Rhee that used him to gain an undeserved position of prominence in education matters—
Link: http://takingnote.learningmatters.tv/?p=6537
Why is the above link important? Because it reminds us of a real hero, someone with a backbone hardened by compassion and courage, Adell Cothorne.
One last comment about the rheephorm “thought leader” that coined the phrase “Cooperation, collaboration and consensus-building are way overrated”:
When she had a position of authority she abused and demeaned others, and ruined the lives of so many children and adults. And now this bully wants to be left alone to clutch her pearls and fall on her fainting couch? Reminds me of the psychopathic killer taken out by Phoebe, the partner of Detective John Kimble [played by Arnold Schwarzenegger]. At the end of the movie Phoebe says:
“You’re not so tough without your car, are you?” [KINDERGARTEN COP, 1990]
😎
P.S. For all you cage busting achievement gap crushing shills and trolls for rheephorm: if you don’t understand the above reference, again, please use those thingies called the internet and the web and google.
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Spokeswoman for the masking tape industry?
Spokeswoman for the eraser industry?
So many legacies, so little time.
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Campbell Brown may be looking for an ‘education’ consultant.
Birds of a feather…flock…
They can both advise corp profiteers how to fire teachers, ruin their careers and make Millions for themselves and other shysters.
Rhee will always land on top.
Sociopaths who are well connected flourish in this public schools corp takeover world. She has NEVER suffered consequences, and will not this time.
Can’t wait to see what comes next in RheeWorld.
Idea…we still don’t know why our bee population and their hives are collapsing.
🐝🐝🐝 Just sayin…
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I am curious about the “”drug usage”” from Kevin Johnson that may be on Michelle.
If my speculation is real, then this power couple has no money. Please look at their face aura of today or their most recent image on the news.
To my viewpoint, ONLY drug “”cocaine”” users have no morality and basic human ethics and are willing to trade their soul for money in order to satisfy their addiction. This applies to journalists, politicians and celebrities. Back2basic
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Rhee/Johnson own 23 charter schools in Sacramento. That should be lucrative for them. Kevin left the NBA a star player and made millions there, and Rhee takes in millions from StudentsFirst…they are not poor.
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Does she have anymore flying monkeys?
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Maybe Michelle can Rheetake the TIME picture but this time she’s using the same broom and a large dust pan, labeled KARMA, to sweep up the mess that’s in her life. Rheecovery for her, as the darling of the 1%ers, will not be fast.
Justice comes slowly, but does eventually show up.
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I would imagine she will attach herself to another high-profile athlete/celebrity or billionaire and wreak some havoc behind the scenes, then emerge like a locust on the crops of public schools to bring armageddon.
She can’t go unnoticed for too long because she loves the limelight, the cash, and the awful reputation she has earned. How is that spot on the manure board working out? Manure went to manure; how quaint.
Perhaps she will be hired by Eli Broad to fix LAUSD.
We’ll hear from her–she needs the money, and the reformer adulation, and believe it or not, the flack from the little people who mean absolutely zero to her. She LOVEs that stuff; makes her feel like a queen.
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Interesting call, Donna. Maybe Eli will have her join with Deasy and Austin, those two other disgraced deformers. What a triumvirate to sell Vergara, parent trigger, charters, across the country. Though I think with the advent of Great Public Schools Now, they may all fade into oblivion. The California privatizer billionaires are recognizing that Broad’s very name has become an impediment to their goal….so now that are using his plan but with different leaders.
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She needs to crawl under a rock but not before facing those individuals (and there are many) effected so horrifically by her hideous policies!
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Artseagal–Agree. But before staying under that rock she could finally face Diane in that debate she canceled https://dianeravitch.net/2013/06/01/almost-a-debate-between-rhee-and-me-2/
Afterall, it would put her back in the limelight that she desires.
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AlwaysLearning… great idea! But on second thought she doesn’t deserve air time at all 🙂
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It’s irritating that the Bee labels her “educational activism”… She’s definitely not. She was the face of a very specific reform movement – but she never, ever reflected activism around education.
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She used to go to her daughters’ soccer games and scream, “You suck!” at her children. She will reap what she sowed. She will inherit the wind.
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One can only hope for good riddance.
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I have a suggestion. Rhee can move to South Korea and become the Secretary of Education for that country’s schools.
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Could ed reform be pushing this online stuff any harder?
It’s just shameless. Any line there was between “policy” and “pushing product” has just completely disappeared.
“Realigning assessments around student-centered learning, making personalized learning a grant priority across programs, and building more outcomes-based performance metrics into agreements with full-time and supplemental online education providers are among the policy recommendations released by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning this week.”
Whichever marketing team came up with “personalized learning” deserves an award for “most deceptive slogan”.
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If the photos of top management at Miracle Gro’s website are real, did diversity fail to reach the executive ranks?
Creating opportunities for excellence, with a nod toward diversity, seems like a worthy goal for a board member, with Rhee’s former rhetoric?
Information about Miracle Gro can be found through an internet search, “Miracle Gro Marysville Ohio Right Wing”.
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Rhee is a toxic brand. Broad and Gates don’t want her. She’s too much trouble.
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Michelle Rhee caught lying like a rug on her resume.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/2/11/942884/-
“Call me a cynic, but a teacher with such poor classroom management skills she can’t control her kids without resorting to violence is going to have a hard time convincing me she solved the most intractable problem in public education, especially without any evidence to back up her claim.”
Priceless!!!
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Michelle Rhee’s Miracle Teaching Turns Out to Another Enron Education Story
http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/02/michelle-rhees-miracle-teaching-turns.html
“This study is pretty conclusive evidence that Michelle Rhee was flat-out lying in her resume, in her testimony about her resume, and in her interview last month in the Washingtonian magazine.”
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As a sp.ed. teacher, in behavior modification, phasing out bad behavior by ignoring it usually worked (known as “extinguishing”–&, of course, good behavior was always recognized & highly praised).
In the case of Rhee, I think her 15 minutes of ill-gotten fame are over & done. Best thing to do is to totally ignore her, as those of her ilk who crave fame & fortune abhor the vacuum,
…and, like the Wicked Witch, melt away into a puddle of nothingness….
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There are only a few things left for Michelle Rhee to do at this point in her sad existence:
1) Audition for DWTS and end up with William Dafoe as a partner.
2) Replace Lady Gaga as the countess in American Horror Story.
3) Become a spokesperson for some life insurance company targetgin seniors (and you can’t be turned doen for any reason!) in a badly produced advertisement that airs at 2:30 in the morning on local television.
4) Divorce her creepy, eerie husband, and then appear on Oprah, declaring, “I had no idea. I was an abused woman, and I was deceived. I’m a victim, but I’m also a survivor!”, with Oprah wrapping her arms around Michelle, both in tears, and both in Versace.
5) Swallow a bottle of sleeping pills mixed with Vodka.
In any case, Michelle Rhee’s karma will continue to come back and smack her hard in her non-duct-taped mouth.
Poor Michelle . . . .
Well, Joe Nathan, your girlfriend is really making you look bad now! . . . Not that you need any help.
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She’d be lucky to get Willem Dafoe as a dance partner. He’s a great actor.
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Dear Dr. Ravitch:I was in the audience when you spoke Oct. 20 to UofL and you encouraged those of us who are fighting to save our KTRS pension, to keep up the good fight. The 28-second video clip I am interested in occurs at 1:04;13 through 1:04:41. Could I have your permission to upload that clip to our website: http://www.kentuckyteacherretirement.weebly.com and to our Facebook page TRELF ? I am encouraging other KY teachers to join the fight, and a word of praise from you would be golden. Thank you, Randy Wieck, Ph.D.teacher,duPont Manual HighLouisville
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:02:51 +0000 To: rwieck@hotmail.com
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Randy,
You have my permission to use that video.
Diane Ravitch
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I feel as negatively towards Michelle Rhee as the next person, but I think some of the tone in the comments in this thread are pretty nasty. Saying someone should kill themselves or saying they deserve an abusive/rapist husband is pretty low. She may disagree with everything we believe, and may have caused serious damage to public education, but she is also a human being and does not deserve to be spoken about in that way.
If our side of the Public vs Privatized Education debate is going to win, we need to understand and win over our opponents. We already have truth on our side- lets win with kindness and empathy as well. Keep our discussions focused on her negative influence on education- not on her personal life or her personality. There is more than enough dirt in her professional life to discuss. The more civil and focused we are, the more people will join our side.
Imagine if Education Post went through these comments and posted about how sexist/racist/horrible Public School supporters were. I am not saying that you/we are sexist or racist, but a PR machine like edpost could easily pick and choose some pretty nasty comments. Who would that help? Lets be strategic, smart, and better people than the other side of this debate- lets not stoop to their level of personal attacks and insults. That is not how you win.
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GS
With the exception of Rhee, I agree with your post about keeping the discourse civil. She has harmed countless teachers personally and professionally in a calculated manner using her lies for the purpose of promoting herself as the face of “reform.” Rhee behaves in a self-described radical manner. Therefore, all educators have the right to express their utter disgust if her name is mentioned.
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GS,
Rhee and the other so-called reformers have spent years defaming, slandering and scapegoating teachers and the public schools, yet we’re supposed to maintain a level of courtesy and respect that we are never shown?
That’s very nice, but it also ignores the power dynamics at work, where “civility” can and is used as tool of repression.
Teachers should wake up and realize that this is a knife fight, not a college debate, and be prepared to do what they need to do in order to defend their jobs and careers.
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Michael-
I agree with you that we need to fight back- and I understand how much damage Rhee has done. I agree we are not in a “college debate.” But we are in a debate that spans across policy, individual schools, teachers lives, and public opinion. We will never win a “knife fight.” We can beat them at their own game- by being better at it.
I just don’t see how vicious personal attacks or calling for Rhee to kill herself really benefits the cause- it only makes people feel better momentarily. It is not productive, and can only really cause problems. Call out her ties to corporations and the 1 percent. Call out her lying in her personal record/resume. Call out the damage she did to the teaching profession. Call out her firing of a principal on camera during a documentary. Call out her taping 30 students mouths shut. Call out her husbands disgusting crimes and illegal practices. Call out her right wing political actions and the politicians she supports. There are plenty of areas that she does deserve disgust. But people seem genuinely gleeful that she is in a relationship that is probably abusive. Or want physical/psychological harm to come to her. Or want her to kill herself. That is pretty gross.
I understand where people are coming from, but I don’t think a well visited and scrutinized public forum is the right place. It reminds me of when someone shouted that Rhee was an Asian B**** at a rally, and Diane apologized. She was not apologizing for peoples anger towards Rhee- she was apologizing because they crossed a line.
And yes, our side should be better than the other side- more civil, more informed, more prepared and more strategic. That is how you win. It feels nice for a couple minutes to yell nasty things or vent. But it will feel even better to take back education for the people who actually can make a real difference.
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Our side has been “nice” for a long time. Results: Near total annihilation of a profession. Let’s not forget the damage done to students from “disruptive innovation”. I always thought the biggest problems for students, especially those in poverty, was the lack of stability in their lives. Teachers need to voice outrage more not less.
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GS,
I agree with you that personal attacks are usually counterproductive, and are not my preferred way to conduct the knife fight we find ourselves in.
However, I stand by my supporting point about “civility” often being used as a tool of repression. This was most certainly the case on the Southern Front of the civil rights era, when activists were frequently chided for their lack of civility and knowing their “place.”
Teachers tend to be people who believe in courtesy and rules, and that is being used against them in a very cynical and destructive way.
Teaching as a humanistic endeavor based on personal relationships is in imminent danger of being replaced by privatization and technology, all pursued for private power and private gain. If teachers do not sharpen the struggle, call out and aggressively challenge those who would steal our profession and children’s futures, then it’s going to be past the point of no return quite soon.
That might sometimes require risking good taste and etiquette, in order to keep these monstrous hypocrites and looters from destroying a priceless public good. We should perhaps be less concerned with having these people listen to us (which in fact they’ve demonstrated they will never, ever do) than with having them fear us.
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GS and Mr. Fiorillo,
Please calm down, GS. I agree with all of your contentions about the importance of civility.
However, I was making fun of Monstress Rhee, and I offered some black humor. It should be the worst thing an educator could do in this war against us.
Certainly, I don’t condone acts of physical aggression or threats that are serious and intentionally aimed as none other than a threat.
As for politelness, I have to respectfully disagree with you.
We educators have been lied to, lied about, misrepresented, skewerd, slandered, libeled, witch hunted, given double and triple standards, demonized, and criminalized.
In short, we educators have been abused, and we have faced it first with civil discourse, than disappointed discourse, and then frustrated discourse.
Now we are facing it with angry discourse, and why should we not react with anger (in my case, it’s black humor suspending that anger), as reformers are not interested in listening to those in the trenches?
I no longer believe polite and civil are all the time warranted. If you want to remain polite and civil, I respect that. I however, refuse to sit around knitting doilies and sipping tea and crumpets while expressing my disapproval of Ms. Rhee and those like her. Her demise is unfortunate from a humanistic point of view, and is a veritable and welcome benefit for the whole of society and democracy.
So if you want to put the focus on her abusive relationship, why not equally focus upon the abusive culture, laws and clout spewing forth from her venom that have unjustly affected hundreds of thousands of innocent teachers and administrators, and have at the same time ignored grotesque and hideous inequities in our ever polarizing society?
Please rememebr that the settlers were very polite with the king and tried to reason with him for many, many years, sending envoys to delcare taxation without representation. In the end, he refused to hear them, and that’s when they ceased their polite discourse and implmented much worse.
Certainly, I am not even suggesting we should go that route, but polite discourse and civility to get our point across is like using a Kleenex to snuff out a raging fire.
Also remember that the reformer movement in education is but a micro-element of a much larger umbrella attempt to shift power and wealth in the USA and gloablly like it has not been since the industrial revolution. In addition, it’s worse than just shifts in socio-economic status; it’s getting us to dumb down our population even more so that one day, they will not be able to contribute or compete in the market place of free ideas and critical thought, which in turn help people question and change the status quo.
Do I regret that I jokingly suggested that Michelle Rhee perish?
Not me.
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I did not take the vodka and pills comment or the North Korean dictator comments literally. On first, second and third readings, I took them as dark humor. And yeah, it made me feel a little better. I need that. It’s been a long haul being personally and professionally — and constantly– degraded by Rhee and her kind (greedy sociopaths) in the media and at work, as well as by friends and family brainwashed by media, paid for by Bill Gates and his kind (greedy techies). I say we have been fighting with our teacher’s kid gloves long enough. It’s time to tactically take the gloves off. And don’t feel sorry for Rhee. She wouldn’t feel anything for you or for me.
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GS: Of course you are right so I will say something “nice” about Michelle Rhee:
She reminded us that children should come first. As teachers know, there are thousands of children who do not come first with their parents. These children are abandoned by one or both parents who leave them for something “better” (new love, new job, etc.) These children come second, third or not at all to these neglectful parents and this abandonment often has lifelong consequences.Often these bad parents come to regret their neglect when they are old but by then it’s too late.
So parents: Put your children first. You will never regret doing so.
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The last thing Rhee did was put children first.
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Yes, that was my point.
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I don’t know if it was by court order or divorce mediation or what, but her daughters are kept far from her second/current husband. Perhaps we can write that off to a smart first husband. Then again, he married her in the first place, so not too smart.
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Most parents, even the most “casual,” would fight to the death to put their children first.
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I think her pulpit and microphone should be taken away forever. If that happens, I don’t give a rat’s bladder about what happens to her. She needs to get the hell out of the way of people who do the real work of educating children.
Until that happens, keep shining a harsh spotlight on her. If she starts messing with education again, then take a blowtorch to her (not literally: pace GS) and her ideas.
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From her corporate position at Miracle Gro, she could walk, her talk and increase the number of minorities in top management. Company head shots look reiterative.
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There is very, very special ring in the Inferno for Rhee, Gates, and the rest of the deformer crowd and their allies. Hope they are stocking up on burn cream and aloe-vera lotion.
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