Read this:
How I Finally Faced Up to the Hate Unleashed by Trump and Betsy DeVos http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-i-finally-faced-up-to-the-hate-unleashed-by-trump_us_588e3241e4b0cd25e4904a19?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 # via @HuffPostEdu
I am in an airplane taking off for Dallas
Speaking at A&M in Commerce tomorrow
Diane Ravitch's blog 
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Scary. I was at meetings like this too when I tailed David Duke at his rallies in 1989-91. This is the result of the marriage of Duke’s rhetoric and Newt Gingrich’s political strategy of 1994. It has given voice to white supremacist resentment and senses of entitlement to create the Republican Party of today. It’s filtered down to the grassroots through the efforts of ALEC, right-wing fundamentalism of every stripe, an obstructionism to President Obama led by McConnell and Ryan, and the enablers and creators of Trumpism. Welcome to the nation we, up until now, could never have envisioned. John Thompson’s example is one we must repeat over and over again in order to put this country’s promise back on track.
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The 1st video was nothing. The second video, I’m not watching 30 seconds of commercial for anybody.
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This post shows that there are some seriously twisted fanatics spewing lies about public education in the “reform” camp. Beware of demagogues with distorted, hateful messages.
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IMHO, we, being as parents, grandparents and veteran educators, must see enough through our own years of learning, observing and teaching that there is certain principal in survival techniques in different aspects in life, and certain principle in each character of all sentient beings on earth.
We cannot teach others in theory, BUT in practice or in example, or in experience.
In this post, the author has expressed his own fear which he acknowledges his own people’s attitude in State of Oklahoma. In other word, we must be “the one” in order to understand how “the one” is like to be fearful of what “the one” can do to the opponents.
In short, I love my mother’s advice that if we respect and acknowledge the Enlightenment, then we must learn to practice the wisdom from Buddha in all situations from the danger to the security. It is very simple but it is truthful for life.
I) Here is Buddha’s wisdom:
DO NOT quickly believe in the saying from:
People with authority, scientific knowledge, and wealth (due to their own gain)
People with old age, claimed to be a Wise-man (due to his lust for control and power)
Any written old testaments (due to it is possibly fake)
Any mystery, unfounded truth, and lack of proof of science (due to rumor or legendary).
II) From the best teacher named Rafe Esquith in LA Elementary School to his 5th grade students;
SUCCESS is NOT defined by HOW MUCH YOU MAKE or how famous you are, BUT that IT IS HONORABLE to BE HONEST and DO GOOD.
III) From my own experience in Canada.
1) Life: understanding the DEEP MEANING OF KARMA = circle of re-incarnation
2) Liberty: body – mind – spirit need to be cultivated or educated in civilized manner.
3) The pursuit of happiness: appreciate the differences, mutual respect and giving a helping hand to one another within our capacity through wisdom, knowledge and experience WITHOUT monetary involvement. Back2basic
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Thompson’s description of the speech by this man was hauntingly similar to the speech I had my children read today by Hitler. Scapegoating, absolving listeners of all responsibility to society, all of the fascist things are there.
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With the charter school industry that’s favored by nominee for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos bleeding vital funds from the public’s schools, the thoughtful person will ask: “Why are hedge fund people the main backers of the private charter school industry? After all, hedge funds are not known for a selfless interest in educating children.”
Well, the answer, of course, is MONEY.
For example, look at DeVos’ home state of Michigan: There are 1.5 million children attending public elementary and secondary schools and the state annually spends about $11,000 per student which adds up to pot of about $17 billion that private charter school operators have their eyes on. If these private operators succeed in getting what DeVos wants to give them — the power to run all the schools — these private profiteers could make almost $6 billion in profit just by firing veteran teachers and replacing them with low-paid inexperienced teachers, which is what the real objective of so-called “Value-Added” evaluations of veteran teachers is all about.
But wait! There’s more!
In fact, there are many more ways that big profits are being made every day right now by the private charter school industry. Here are just some:
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education has issued a warning that charter schools posed a risk to the Department of Education’s own goals. The report says: “Charter schools and their management organizations pose a potential risk to federal funds even as they threaten to fall short of meeting the goals” because of the financial fraud, the skimming of tax money into private pockets that is the reason why hedge funds are the main backers of charter schools.
The Washington State Supreme Court, the New York State Supreme Courts, and the National Labor Relations Board have ruled that charter schools are not public schools because they aren’t accountable to the public since they aren’t governed by publicly-elected boards and aren’t subdivisions of public government entities, in spite of the fact that some state laws enabling charter schools say they are government subdivisions. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL” because no charter school fulfills the basic public accountability requirement of being responsible to and directed by a school board that is elected by We the People. Charter schools are clearly private schools, owned and operated by private entities. Nevertheless, they get public tax money.
Even the staunchly pro-charter school Los Angeles Times (which acknowledges that its “reporting” on charter schools is paid for by a billionaire charter school advocate) complained in an editorial that “the only serious scrutiny that charter operators typically get is when they are issued their right to operate, and then five years later when they apply for renewal.” Without needed oversight of what charter schools are actually doing with the public’s tax dollars, hundreds of millions of tax money that is supposed to be spent on educating the public’s children is being siphoned away into private pockets.
Charter schools should (1) be required by law to be governed by school boards elected by the voters so that they are accountable to the public; (2) a charter school entity must legally be a subdivision of a publicly-elected governmental body; (3) charter schools should be required to file the same detailed public-domain audited annual financial reports under penalty of perjury that genuine public schools file; and, (4) anything a charter school buys with the public’s money should be the public’s property.
NO PUBLIC TAX MONEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO GO TO CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT FAIL TO MEET THESE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE PUBLIC.
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