I just received the following message. I think it explains why Joe Scarborough loves Michelle Rhee and never would invite me on his program. Please tweet him and his guest Steve Schmidt, who smear public schools and speak from ignorance. If you wish, tell them to read “Reign of Error.”
If you want to push back against privatization, start here by attacking the lies about our public schools.
On MorningJoe on MSNBC (my network of choice) this morning, Joe Scarborough, a Republican, and Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Schmidt, were saying that Collins and Murkowski voted against DeVos bec/ they got money from the teachers’ union. NO MENTION of the fact that Murkowski got approx. $43,000 from DeVos. Also said it was the teachers union that pushed back against DeVos, with NO MENTION of the millions of rallies, vigils, calls/e-mails/faxes, pushback etc., from PARENTS and STUDENTS. Also said Duncan was “the greatest” USDOE Secretary in its history. Said public education system is completely broken, desperately in need of reform, with NO MENTION of the ill affects of accountability testing, CCSS, RTTT, etc. Here is the segment: http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/what-makes-devos-nomination-so-controversial-872495683639.
I think MSNBC and Steve Schmidt need to hear from people. Feel free to share.
If you tweet, here is Joe Scarborough: https://twitter.com/joenbc
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Steve Schmidt: https://twitter.com/steveschmidtses?lang=en
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That’s because ed reform donations are pure and unsullied but teacher union donations are dirty and icky.
It’s like how advocating for charter schools is “working for children” and encouraged but advocating for public schools is “defending adult interests” and demeaned.
They oppose public schools. I don’t know how much clearer they can make it.
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Ed reform is funded with gold fairy dust.
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Why is that people that never attended public schools know that public schools are “failures?” How is it he can pass judgment on something about which he has no expertise or experience? Scarborough like many narrow minded conservatives offers his perspective without having any experience or factual evidence. He is simply repeating what other conservatives or “reformers” have said instead of doing his homework in order to get authentic information. He prefers Trump’s world of alternate facts.
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Shame that Scarborough doesn’t pay taxes in Ohio. The unlikely, National Association of Charter Schools, pronounced “Ohio taxpayers ought to be outraged”. Ohio taxpayers are spending $500,000 in legal fees to get back money from the largest charter school in the state, whose students are “mostly truant” .
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What does Joe Scarborough know about public schools? The man is one of the most annoyingly smug people in the punditocracy, and that’s a pretty deep well.
As the punk band the Dead Kennedys sang, “What you need, my son, is a holiday in Cambodia.”
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Since the Election I have not been able to watch much of Scarborough . Let me see ,what does it take to get a republican to say Trump is totally unacceptable.
Some day, when things calm down, I’ll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!
Meet the your president Joe like every other right wing joke there is no level you will not stoop to, to accomplish your goals .
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I’m disgusted by the remarks made by Joe Scarborough and Steve Schmidt. These people put little value on what we teachers do. Without our unions, our female dominated profession would be working for minimum wage. As it is, people say teachers are highly paid babysitters. This should be a wake up call to all teachers, parents and public school students to let the right know that we are not all broken and ineffective. Most of our public schools are excellent. Where they fail is where there is poverty, and teachers’ unions can’t be blamed for that. If given the funds, support, and proper resources, schools in poor areas could improve. But stop bashing our entire profession and the public school system as a whole.
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Yes, public schools in poor communities could do better if given adequate resources, but the effects of poverty have to be dealt with on a societal level,as well. Adequate housing, nutrition, healthcare, employment opportunities,… are the societal issues that impact what happens in the classroom. Schools can only do so much. Teachers are the scapegoat of choice for those whose agenda has nothing to do with providing quality education.
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I apologize for posting my account four or five times…..Do not leave out Harold Ford of Michigan…..his comments lauding Arne Duncan for creating pockets of money for poor children leaves him wide open to a traditional criticism of democrats…..top down activity…..in many cases, as we know, leading to all sorts of manipulations under which the kids find the pockets of Arne Duncan pretty empty.
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aggggh!
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I let Joe know that we spend triple the money on prisoners.
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Have any of these people stepped into a public school, rural, or suburban, or urban in the last 5 to 10 years? All they do is parrot one another. And I suppose Scarborough didn’t “enjoy” his congressional protection while in office either? These are uneducated opinions told as “fact” (“everybody knows schools are broken”.) Total crap from the ill-informed.
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