The Network for Public Education invites you to contact your local PBS station to protest the one-sided three-hour special “School Inc.” The letter in the link tells you how to contact your PBS affiliate.
We urge two courses of action, for the sake of balance. Please request that they air my 10-minute response which was filmed by the NYC affiliate of PBS. Please urge them to show “Backpack Full of Cash,” made by award-winning Stone Lantern Productions; it tells the story of the corporate assault on public schools.
That is 70 minutes of time, certainly not equal time. PBS, in the interests of fairness, should identify and run three hours of documentaries that show an accurate picture of the accomplishments and challenges of public schools.
PBS is running a three-hour special that attacks public schools and celebrates privatization. “School Inc” claims that public schools are not “innovative,” but not one of its free-market examples are innovative in any way, other than that they are run by private corporations, many for profit. The narrator and creator of this series is the late Andrew Coulson, a libertarian who believed in free-market education.
I watched all three hours of the program twice, preparing for a 10-minute interview at WNET, the New York City affiliate of PBS. I learned that the three foundations that funded the program are libertarian supporters of vouchers. The program is pro-privatization propaganda. At no point does Coulson interview anyone who disagrees with him. He lauds the free-market reforms in Chile and Sweden, which reputable scholars have found wanting. Chile is one of the most segregated school systems in the world, and Sweden’s scores on international tests have fallen since the introduction of Choice and for-profit schooling.
This program leads the way in promoting the DeVos agenda of free-market education.
Please send your email. Be heard.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is a good idea. I encourage everyone to support their local PBS stations. If the mood strikes, please consider enclosing a donation. PBS stations rely on viewer support. I often ask myself; “Do you think the commercial networks would ever broadcast “Sesame Street”?
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Charles, “Wealthy Viewers Have Subsidized Sesame Street for a Long Time
The show’s business model relies on profits made from licensing revenue, and it’s suffering in the streaming era.”
“The New York Times reported (August 13, 2014) that HBO would essentially sponsor Sesame Street’s next five seasons. The premium-cable channel will increase the number of new episodes per year, from 18 to 35, and retain exclusive rights to each new season for nine months after it’s completed. After that de facto embargo ends, new Sesame Street episodes will air on PBS, just as always.” …
“Historically, less than 10 percent of the funding for Sesame Street episodes came from PBS, with the rest financed through licensing revenue, such as DVD sales. … About two-thirds of children now watch Sesame Street on demand and do not tune in to PBS to watch the show.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/sesame-street-and-the-achievement-gap/401255/
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Generally, the cord-cutting trend is accelerating.
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Thanks to Network for Public Education for facilitating the expression of our anger. The promotion of the privatization of America’s most important common good is ethically indefensible. To do so because of money from the richest 1% while denying equal time to present the deleterious effect, is an unconscionable act by PBS.
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Linda, sad fact is that it seems to me that only members of the choir read posting’s such as that by ‘dianeravitch’. Americans’ understanding of what is ethical and what is not is widely of base.
Basic financial support of school systems on the local tax base is, in the opinion of this European, unjust, unfair if not unethical.
Making the construction of speed breakers on neighborhood roads in Georgia dependent on the the uniform consent of property owners on that street, who then have to pay for it, is unjust, unfair if not unethical; because making public safety dependent on the financial resources of property owners is discriminatory.
Government agencies’ reading of our online communications for the purpose of fishing for potential troublemakers is unconstitutional and in my opinion unethical as privacy is a right worth to be protected.
That the discussion about ethics reminds me of an excellent book about the topic, Peter Singer’s, the Princeton ethicist’s, book “The President of Good and Evil, On the Ethics of George W. Bush”. His summary finding regarding the ethics of this recent US president can easily applied to most of Americans, whose ethics is widely out of whack.
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I agree with your cited examples and I agree that most who read comments at this blog are in the choir. However, PBS customer service might drop in, if the network’s name is in the post headline. It’s what a wise business does to gauge the way the firm and its products are perceived and judged, possibly providing a heads up about a potential drop in revenue.
The world is In an economic death spiral resulting from concentrated wealth.(Thomas Picketty) In the U.S. last year, “the richest 1% shifted $4.1 tril. in wealth away from the nation to themselves.” The big picture significance of that is that a huge number of families will not be able to afford the Gates/Zuckerberg/Pearson schools-in-a-box
product, which has a projected 20% profit margin for investors. The World Bank has been criticized for promoting for profit, schools-in-a-box to the exclusion of public education. A parent in a place where the boxes are sold made this pleas, “Don’t make money on our poor backs.” There is no ethical gray area in that example, despite the Gates’ machine’s attempt to create one.
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I spoke to my local affiliate, WSRE, yesterday, They said they had no plans to air School, Inc. I also suggested they air anything from Diane Ravitch and “Backpacks Full of Cash.”
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Already done from FB link. Thanks NPE for making it easy!
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Me too. I don’t do facebook otr twitter, both suggested as a way to spread the message.
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Did so and FB.
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Done and done.
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Thank you, Diane for speaking truth to power.
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Critique of School Inc. Illustrates Why Airing It Is Right
https://www.cato.org/blog/only-airtime-we-agree
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I’m waiting for PBS to air a propaganda film funded by the Koch brothers on why it is right for billionaires to make all the decisions in our society. Then another program explaining why the government should not fund public television.
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I’d like to see the airing of a film that explains how the richest 5 men in the world, each having as much as 750,000,000 people benefits future generations. Narrowing it to the U.S., the Cato dog and pony show telling us that 6 Walton heirs with wealth equivalent to 40% of Americans reflects Utopia and Shangra La would merit a laugh track.
Scalise got $10,000 from the Koch’s last year. The “Representative” has 8 programs with $100,000 minimum donations to participate e.g. “One on One Coffees”, “Biannual Briefings with Team Scalise”, etc. The shooter had been left with nothing to lose. If Scalise’s medical bills bankrupt him he will be like half of the Americans who filed for bankruptcy.
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Linda,
My guess is that the Congressional health insurance plan covers everything and that Rep. Scalise will never pay a penny. They also get generous pensions.
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I can see that the mindset of the shooter lives on in you. “Death to Republicans” is really your basic position. Can you deny it?
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Nine Black people praying in a church were killed by a White supremacist. What was Scalise’s record on association with White supremacists?
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This my response to my local PBS affiliate’s response:
Hi _____,
Thanks for your response. If PBS is serious about balance, it will have to air a 3-part series that gives a full-throated critique of the corporate reform/school privatization movement. I look forward to that. You might need to help with the funding, as few of the critics have billionaires to back them.
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A just right statement.
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PBS is a left-leaning network that airs politically tendentious docus every week — and God bless em for it! Not once have they felt the need to put up a corrective “response” to a film, and neither Ravitch nor anyone else here has ever felt impelled to make them do to. Why the double-standard on •this• particular subject?
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Please name an error-filled left leaning documentary on PBS that did not show different points of view.
NPE will produce a detailed critique with citations to actual scholarship as opposed to Coulson’s personal opinions.
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Excellent project with value beyond this film.
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“PBS is a left-leaning network….”
No need to read further. PBS is a corporate mouthpiece, nothing more.
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B. T. Justice is into false equivalencies. I keep looking for an answer to the question whether that go-to position reflects right wing teaching or, if it reflects a natural defect in right wing brains.
The following is an example of a false equivalency. A film is aired showing the horror of human trafficking. PBS is obligated to show, for balance, the benefits contributed to society by the practice of profit-taking from the child slave trade.
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B. T. Justice: Cato is a far right wing libertarian/Ayn Randian propaganda mill. It is funded by libertarian plutocrats that hate government and want to privatize everything at the expense of the 99%. Cato takes the think out of think tank and spews politically tendentious garbage from the free marketeers.
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Done.
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Scapegoating teachers and their unions for societal crime, income inequality, etc. seems to be a key tenet of school reform movement. I imagine that’s going to be included — implicitly or explicitly — in School, Inc.
On that subject, it’s hard to beat this true story out of the Windy City.
Jim Reynolds, a banking industry CEO and prominent Chicago city official (or quasi-city official), is now blaming Chicago’s record crime rate — the highest in the country, I believe — on .. you guessed it … those greedy, unionized teachers.
You know, what with those incompetent educators’ selfish focus on wanting a livable wage, decent health benefits, pensions, etc..
How dare they?
No, folks, it’s not an Onion parody.
(it’s the second item in the column … scroll down to read it.)
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/at-the-union-league-club-its-ok-to-dress-like-you-do-at-work/
Yeah, that’s what Jim Reynolds, a banker, the CEO of Loop Capital Market, and manager of the the City of Chicago’s tax revenue bonds, recently opined. (excerpt just BELOW)
Really, Jim? You really think that?
That’s like blaming the FEMA rescue workers for causing Hurricane Katrina.
Personally I would think that the proliferation of dubious, money-motivated charter schools, staffed by short-term (often 2 years or less), less qualified teachers from outside Chicago — educators who replaced long-time veteran teachers / respected residents of the community — might be part of the problem.
There’s also the problem of charter school attrition.
Gary Rubenstein and others have repeatedly debunked Chicago’s and other city’s “miracle” charter schools, pointing to their sky-high rates of student attrition. This includes schools like Chicago’s Urban Prep, whose operators and supporters boast of 100% of their graduates — all 50 or so — getting accepted to college. Urban Prep officials and their supporters conveniently leave out that petty detail that Urban Prep started out with 250 freshman four years earlier.
What about the other 200? What happened to them?
Once those unfortunate kids are kicked out of these “No Excuses” high-student-attrition schools — schools whose expansion, replacing pre-existing public schools, was pushed by Reynolds and by others in Chicago’s business community — do you think that those kicked-out students’ limited options (no diploma, no skills) may have contributed to the crime and violence about which Reynolds spoke?
Needless to say, Chicago Teachers Union leader Karen Lewis wasn’t havin’ it.
In the same piece, Lewis points out how, in Chicago, funding for the traditional public schools — the last resort option for those kicked out students, btw — has been repeatedly cut to the bone to allow bankers like Reynolds and Reynolds’ billionaire allies to keep receiving hundreds of millions in annual tax breaks:
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/at-the-union-league-club-its-ok-to-dress-like-you-do-at-work/
(]Again, it’s the second item in the column … scroll down to read it.)
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES:
“Jim Reynolds Takes on Teachers”
“Businessman and civic leader Jim Reynolds took Chicago Public School teachers to task the other day for focusing more on finances than curriculum. He went so far as say the focus on finances is to blame, in part, for violence in the city.
(PICTURE of Jim Reynolds, conveniently African-American, btw)
“ ‘I hear the teachers union talk a lot about pensions, but not about what’s going on in the classroom. They need to agree on how kids are going to learn. The curriculum has to be changed so a young person out of high school is qualified to get a job or go on to college,’ the CEO of Loop Capital Markets said during the Driehaus Symposium. Kids who can’t find jobs resort to crime, he said.
“Reynolds, who also heads a business effort to help get kids off the streets, was the featured speaker at the event for business and civic leaders.
“Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis didn’t attend, but had a sharp response to Reynolds’ thinking.
“ ‘Parents have watched class sizes grow, after-school programs close, and experienced teachers get laid off while bankers like Mr. Reynolds and billionaire tax loopholes were protected,’ she said in an emailed statement. ‘It’s no wonder he’s so committed to avoiding the subject of school funding. I would change the subject, too, if I was head of one of the banks that profited at the expense of Chicago Public Schools students, educators and families.’ ”
“Reynolds’ Loop Capital has served as a manager for the city’s sales tax revenue bonds.”
“For attendees, the straight talk about crime was illuminating. ‘We have to do more than want for a solution and expect our city to deliver it,’ said Eli Boufis, the co-founder of Driehaus Private Equity. It means, he says, businesses need to ‘get involved.’ ”
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Seriously, Reynolds leads “a business effort to help get kids off the streets”?
Hey, Jim. Here’s an idea for just such a “business effort”:
DON’T CUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS FROM CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ ANNUAL BUDGET, MONEY THAT THEN GOES TOWARDS TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY AND BUSINESS INTERESTS IN CHICAGO.
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The intentional overlooking of attrition rates will someday be one of the great scandals of the entire faux “reform” movement. It speaks to their dishonesty in having any interest in true “public” education — meaning ALL kids. It speaks to their desire only to educate the students who cost less to educate than their per pupil allocation. Because that’s the only way to run a profitable school.
If a science journal published atrocious non-peer reviewed studies of how “effective” a new drug was using the same embarrassing ‘let’s not pay attention to those pesky attrition rates because the 10 patients who remained in the study did really well” standards it would be rightly criticized from every side. In fact, there have been cases of pharmaceutical companies and their paid academic scientists pulling that kind of fast one and they have been career-ending acts when they were finally revealed. You cannot claim success if you are losing huge cohorts of patients. And the better you claim your drug is, the fewer patients you should be losing. But in education, you can claim you are offering the best education ever and unaccountably losing huge numbers of children and the billionaires who pay for the studies say “duh wow sounds good” let’s give them even more money!
How is it that no one is demanding all charters provide the same Common Data Set that colleges are required to provide? Numbers of students entering in the FIRST year of the school. And how many of those very same students graduate with their cohort (no ringers brought in to fudge the numbers). And that data is broken down by whether the students are economically disadvantaged, ELL, or affluent students whose parents have college degrees.
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That is crap. BigPharma promotes bread-&-butter drugs daily as we speak, based on tiny cohorts of patients in 6-week trials w/no follow-up. FDA winks & approves.
Don’t kid yourself. I lived it, w/a kid who had chronic illness — both mental & physical– & he did not survive.
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Sorry for the rude post. You hit a nerve. But my experience is, health care is in the same basket of deplorables, & pharmaceutical companies get away w/murder. They don’t go under. The pain-mgt technique that killed my kid 7 yrs ago was delivered under a protocol that was based on faulty data-collection, a product of the collision between DEA war on drugs & greedy pharma. And a few yrs before that, a so-called antidepressant put him into psychosis: the shrink later told me the Euro trials that showed promise had been falsified. The scandal didn’t put the mfr out of biz, they just slapped a black-box warning on it (that is now displayed on every AD) on still peddle it today.
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bethree5,
I am very sorry that your child was the victim of BigPharma promoting harmful drugs based on spurious, biased studies. That is appalling.
I don’t trust Big Pharma to be any less corrupt than charter schools. Their goals are the same — make something look good to enrich themselves.
I did think that scientific journals had a peer review standard to make sure poorly designed studies where success is guaranteed weren’t published.
If the FDA is approving them they are just as bad as charter school authorizers. Their agenda is not oversight but promoting the interests of corporations and billionaires.
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They just wrote me that they can’t broadcast Backpack because they don’t have the rights.
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Tell them to get the rights. : – )
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The producers of Backpack are eager to put the show on PBS. Your station did not speak truth.
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“Your station” did indeed speak truth. I am the program director for a public television station, and I can’t just “get the rights” to a film which hasn’t been formally offered. They needn’t go through PBS if they want to get it to stations; American Public Television (aptonline.org) and NETA (netaonline.org) are alternate public television distributors, and can generally be a bit more nimble.
The irritating thing about this campaign is that there is NO national airdate for this series in June. It is not, and never has been, part of the PBS primetime schedule. It was offered as a supplemental program back in April, for use at the discretion of individual stations. It looks like WNET is airing it locally; your beef should be with them instead of harassing stations nationwide.
And yes, I’m getting calls and e-mails. Thanks for wasting my time.
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Happy to waste your time when PBS sells airtime to radical libertarians.
Say something positive about our amazing and innovative public schools!
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You are welcome DoDonna. I assume you work for PBS. I haven’t wasted your time yet, but I’m gearing up to waste a lot of your time.
Pay attention.
A one-sided documentary offered through PBS to PBS stations that clearly favors the autocratic, for profit, often fraudulent and child abusing liars that are pushing competition as (false) choice that will profit autocratic, opaque (secretive) corporate charter schools that legally steal money from community-based, democratic, transparent, non-profit, traditional public schools is not journalism.
If you work for PBS, then you are smeared with the same brush that reveals you have been bought and paid for. Everytime you cash your paycheck, you are guilty.
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I don’t work for PBS. As I wrote, I work for a local public television station.
And we have said–and done–plenty of positive things about public education. Last September there was an entire week of PBS prime time programming dedicated to education. We also participate in an annual day-long American Graduate Day broadcast. We have a full-time education director who works directly with public schools, and a part-timer who runs our decade-long Book Mentor project, which sends volunteer readers (including me) into pre-K schools and distributes thousands of free books for students to take home. Nationally, the public television community makes thousands of content modules and lesson plans available to public educators.
So, please, spare me your dudgeon about how we’re selling out to the Cato Institute. That’s not how things work, and frankly, it’s an insult to the many good people who work at hundreds of independently owned-and-operated stations across the country.
Sorry to be cranky, but today was my day off and I spent a fair portion of it responding to your campaign against a program we have no plans to air.
I earn the Medium Bucks fielding complaints from folks angry at me for being too liberal or not liberal enough or for running that one show they disagreed with, never mind that every week we air similar point-of-view documentaries which are by no means funded by Cato or Koch. Seriously, check out Independent Lens and POV; it’s left and center-left social-justice all the way. Any other over-the-air broadcasters in your market airing the likes of “Newtown?” Didn’t think so.
To be clear, I’m not here representing PBS or my local station; I speak for myself, a person who goes to work hoping to make my community just a little bit better, only to face this judgmental crap from people who know nothing about how my industry works yet know for a fact that I’m a tainted wretch in the employ of Big Libertarian. Save your disdain for Trump and his cronies, instead of the folks who–believe it or don’t, I don’t care which–are overwhelmingly aligned with your interests.
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One more thing, and then I’m done. When you contact your local station, remember that there’s a person on the other end. (Odds are pretty good they’re left of center, to boot.) Try talking TO them, not AT them, and don’t go in assuming the worst. Finally, please, save that “every time you cash your paycheck you are guilty” rhetoric. It’s not true, it’s not helpful, and it’s not appreciated.
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DoDonna,
I am glad to learn that your local PBS station will not be airing the one-sided series promoting vouchers, charters, homeschooling, cyberschooling and anything other than public schools. I certainly apologize if anyone wrote letters or emails that blamed your station for PBS’ decision to let Dark Money buy three hours to air their love of privatization.
I understand that you found the emails annoying but consider how angry parents and teachers are after nearly 20 years of seeing their community public schools defamed, closed, handed off to greedy entrepreneurs, and constant teacher bashing and a fake narrative about “failing public schools” by billionaires and leaders of both parties.
We know that our public schools are not failing. We know that test scores reflect family income. We know that the policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama were terrible for children, teachers, and public schools. As bad as they were, Trump will be many times worse, because both Trump and DeVos view public schools with contempt.
Into this fragile situation comes a three-hour documentary running on PBS that lauds the ideas of Trump and DeVos and defames public schools.
Neither I nor the Network for Public Education believe in censorship. We believe in fairness and accuracy. If PBS gives three hours to bashing public schools, it should give three hours of air time to recognizing the importance of public education in our democracy and show the magnificent innovation that occurs in well-funded public schools.
Don’t you think that’s a reasonable request?
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Tim Scott’s “Impact Investing…” published at Dissident Voice describes the America where the richest 0.1% win the PR war against common goods. (Gates and Walton heirs are spending or have spent $1 bil. each to pave the way for for profit-taking on the backs of the middle class and poor, by destroying public education.)
It must concern dodonna, like it concerns the rest of us, when organizations and people refer to contractor schools (charters) as public schools. It perpetuates a destructive lie.
Those of us at this blog probably share dodonna’s frustration that PBS apparently has to be circumvented by going to APT and NETA, in order for a local stations to have the opportunity to present programming that is fair.
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The mere fact that PBS needs to be told that School Inc is propaganda means they are too far gone to help.
The “public” went out of PBS and NPR long ago.
They have become incorporated.
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As always, you’re right. No more donations to PBS. (Losing the cartoons, Daniel Tiger and Arthur will be hard on kids.)
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If the libertarians succeed in privatizing public schools, public television will be next to go.
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This is so true.
And public television executives are trying just as hard as the “good” non-profit charter schools to stay quiet and please their financial masters. They know that there is something wrong, but they will look the other way and not speak out and go along with the farce of “fair and balanced” (by PBS) or “keep quiet about attrition” (“good” non-profit charters) because they get some of the crumbs thrown their way. And they rationalize how complicit they are by telling themselves that they do some good with the crumbs they get. Even as they enable the most unethical behavior.
And they will be thrown under the bus once they have served their purpose in undermining all opposition and promoting the lies. And they will have no one to blame but themselves.
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Have you seen this?
Kochs Bankroll Move to Rewrite the Constitution
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/03/13229/koch-brothers-bankroll-constitutional-convention
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/26/kochs-bankroll-move-rewrite-constitution
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20178/wisconsin-may-bring-koch-brothers-closer-to-constitutional-convention
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Lloyd,
Buying state legislators and members of Congress is not enough for the Koch brothers. They want everything, including our democracy.
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The next step after the billionaires take over and divide up the country into fiefdoms will be when they crown themselves kings. They already have the castles and private armies.
Soon after that, all those billionaire Kings will wage war with each other sending their private armies to do battle.
I suspect that all of these autocratic billionaires are psychopaths and narcissists so it is easy to imagine the many wars they will start between each other once they sweep aside that pesky U.S. Constitution written by the Founding Fathers and the Constitutional Republic that document was written to protect.
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Stephanie Saul of the NYT reported the DeVos’ and Koch’s pay for Robert Spencer to speak on college campuses. The Norwegian who killed 77 kids repeatedly cited Spencer in his manifesto. The Koch’s, DeVos’ and Spencer are evil.
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I stop contributing to my my local station 2 years ago, when they started all that pro-Gates story telling. They have been bought and paid for by a very small group of donors.
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“President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is expected to sign a long-awaited executive order today that would shift certification of federally funded apprenticeship programs from the Labor Department to grant recipients, a move that effectively would eliminate government oversight..”
Get ready to hear stories of tens of thousands of young people who will be ripped off by fake “apprenticeships”.
Let the exploitation begin!
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Let the exploitation ratchet up.
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Sent email. Will call tomorrow.
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Done & did! Thanks for the platform!
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One of our daughters has been employed teaching high school English for a private company. She is now of a mind to quit this job as soon as she can owing to her dismay over the company’s reliance on deceptive and misleading attendance records to recruit parents and their children and its general disregard for quality teaching and learning. Our daughter taught with distinction in public high schools for more than a decade, so she knows the difference between good public education and corporate, bottom-line “choices.”
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New children’s programming at PBS includes a program with children dressed in business suits. One episode showed a stern child boss berating an adult employee. A theme in a recurring segment of the program has female figures presented as princesses with boxes, instead of heads and moving as if they were automatons. (No “princes” with box heads.) Quite disturbing.
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The princess segment was probably funded by Peter Thiel (sarcasm).
He’s on Z-berg’s Facebook board and thinks it’s an oxymoron for women to have voting rights in a capitalistic democracy.
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I suppose you all already know about Sesame Street’s partnership with IBM Watson to provide AI companions to toddlers? Sorry. Neither NPR nor PBS are getting my contributions anymore.
Oh, and here they are pitching “personalized learning.” PBS is ALL OVER OER development, too. Don’t be fooled. They are a lost cause.
“What’s Watson doing on Sesame Street?
Each child has a unique way of learning. Working with Watson, Sesame Workshop is developing personalized educational tools that will adapt to the way each child learns. Here’s how they are working to make education as unique as kids.” https://www.ibm.com/watson/stories/education.html
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Thanks for the info. The rich exploit everything in sight. “In 2016, the richest 1% shifted $4 tril. in wealth away from the nation to themselves.” (Ford Foundation-funded Altnet News, “The 5 richest men have as much wealth’s half of the world’s population”.
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Local PBS stations have nothing to lose from a no confidence vote in PBS top management. If the locals aren’t willing to do that, what does it say about them?
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