Here is a very funny video that says in 2 minutes what the public needs to hear as more and more community public schools are run by corporate charter chains. I could explain the same thing with footnotes in a chapter, but skip the chapter and watch the video. It was produced by the Progressive Magazine.
This video was made by the same team that created this video. It’s all about the money.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Clever, if not accurate.
But, what would you say about a similar cartoon regarding traditional public schools?
Haha! Listen to the last disclaimer in the second video
Also available in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCaYmzrj7DY&feature=youtu.be&list=UUl65R0kPElDDdms008pnPxQ
I DID POST THE ANIMATIONS AT http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Video-Ride-the-Profitship-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Charter-School-Failure_Charter-Schools_Common-Core_Diane-Ravitch-160303-423.html#comment586149
but I ADDED LINKS to absolutely SENSATIONAL explanations of the chilling effect of Common Core on our schools, , and the plan to degrade not only public education BUT ALL EDUCATION, and create a truly ignorant. citizenry
In my introduction at the Oped link to Diane’s post, and in my commentary, are the links to Dr Duke Pesta to whom I listened in fascination when he give this speech which presents the FACTS and a slideshow that makes everything so clear, about this assault on pubic schools (The info on Common Core begins at 3:10, but I would watch the whole thing SO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS).
Trust me… I was speechless — and if you follow me here or at Oped News, you know that I know a great deal about the war on public education. THE FIVE MINUTE VERSION which I also linked in my introduction and my commentary, is wonderful too. That is why I posted the link several times, and give it to you here.Common Core: 101 – 5 Minute Breakdown With Dr. Duke Pesta – YouTube
PLEASE. spend the time to hear him. I think that you will want to send the links to everyone you know
The Oped quick link… makes it easy!
I was blown away AS HE TALKS ABOUT WHAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF OUR CITIZENS ON THE COMMON CORE.
PLEASE, TRUST ME, AND Hear the truth, as DR PESTA explains it, about who wrote the common core (David Coleman) andHOW HE EXPLAINS IT, how not a single educator or educational institution saw it before THIS “TROJAN HORSE” was pushed by the lobbyists of the EDUCATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, even as the media told the nation that public schools were failing! Yes, we know it, but I want others to hear how he presents it.
Click to access eic-oct_11.pdf
AND there is this one, by James Corbet of Corbet Report.com about the core of the problem THE REAL AGENDA OF COMMON CORE (it begins with a request for funds… but DO go to the talk… it is wonderful.)
So thanks Diane , for sending me to Youtube and this to the page which does such a great job of explaining SO SIMPLY about THE COMMON CORE HOAX!
NOW IF WE COULD ONLY GET A DOCUMENTATION like Moore to tell our people HOW they have been DUPED, and why this is not about ‘schools’ or ‘privatization’ but about what our CITIZENS who are children now, will know.
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