I won’t summarize Mike Klonsky on “KIPP and Kopp” and the boycott idea. Suffice it to say that nothing’s going to happen on that front.

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Ohio Algebra II Teacher says:

May 22, 2018 at 6:16 am

Such a typical (self-aggrandizing) Duncan comment: “It’s wildly impractical and difficult,” Duncan said. “But I think it’s wildly impractical and difficult that kids are shot when they are sent to school.”

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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 6:45 am
  
  What does Arne mean when he says “it’s wildly impractical and difficult that kids are shot when they are sent to school.”
  
  That it works in theory but not in practice?
  
  What a bizarre statement.
  
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  - joe prichard says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 7:25 am
    
    Great comment, SomeDAM Poet….I will pass it along to Claire McCaskill…My effort, doomed to failure, has been an effort to make her recognize the damage of Duncan and Gates…….I believe she is going to lose.
    
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- BackAgain says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 11:52 am
  
  Charles cannot beat this one.
  
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Norewegian Filmmaker says:

May 22, 2018 at 7:56 am

And where is Obama in all of this?

Oh, I remember now.

After he plundered, pillared, and raped public education, he and hideous wife Michelle are off having a threesome some in political bed with Reed Hastings in their new production company, making stories, narratives, and documentaries for Netflix and getting paid millions of dollars.

Wow, Barack and Michelle. You’re like . . . . MOVIE STARZ!!! SO glamorous.

All quiet on the set. Lights, camera, privatization . . . .

Who says capitalism doesn’t work?

Remember that Hastings is anti-public, school pro-privatization, and he wants to OUTLAW local school boards to replace them with state officials who appoint the school board members.

It’s very clear that the Obamas and Hastings love capitalism and hate democracy, especially when it’s local.

You can blame Duncan all you want and you should, but Duncan was little more than a prostitute with Obama as his main John . . . . Remember that Obama put NCLB on steroids. How disgusting this president was. No different than Trump, but for very opposite reasons. At least with Trump and company, you know what to expect. It’s so preodictalbe right now. Yawn.

But with Obama, you thought you were getting someone progressive, or at least a real Democrat. Oh well . . . .

Who do you hate more? The enemy or the ally who turns out to be an enemy? The jury is still out on that one, perhaps.

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- Joel Herman (@jwherman11) says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 12:04 pm
  
  Easy now . You are heading into dangerous territory . But I think we have seen how this played out .
  
  ” apes moi le Trump. “
  
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- BackAgain says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 1:38 pm
  
  A friendly trolling how-to advice: next time you will be impersonating other people, pay attention to details. First of all, grammar. And do not raise the tension of the argument too fast, this is suspicious.
  
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  - FLERP! says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:40 pm
    
    General rule: Don’t blow multiple grammatical rules when you’re accusing someone of bad grammar.
    
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  - dienne77 says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:47 pm
    
    BA – Joel has been around these parts for quite a while. You just showed up (and declared public schools to be “death traps”). Who’s the troll?
    
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  - BackAgain says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:48 pm
    
    @FLERP! Touché.
    
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  - BackAgain says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:49 pm
    
    @dienne77 I was not replying to Joel, but to NorEwegian Filmmaker.
    
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  - dienne77 says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 3:04 pm
    
    Ah, my bad. However, NF has also been around much longer than you, Mr./Ms. “Death Trap”, so my comment basically stands.
    
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  - Norwegian Filmmaker says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 6:08 pm
    
    Thank you Dienne!!
    
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- retiredbutmissthekids says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 4:32 pm
  
  &…speaking of Johns…& then Obama twisted the knife further into the back of public education by appointing John King when Arne resigned.
  
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- Norwegian Filmmaker says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 6:03 pm
  
  I’m not a troll. I’m simply connecting some critical dots. Sorry about my grammar. There are obvious reasons for that.
  
  If you can’t stand the commentary, get out of the discussion kitchen, BA……
  
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  - BackAgain says:
    
    May 23, 2018 at 2:14 am
    
    The text and style feels different… I don’t like flippant usage of “rape”, and I don’t see why Michelle Obama is hideous. Not that I really care, on the Net one can choose a mask for one’s liking. I don’t care who you really are as long as I find valuable info in your messages. The one above was not very informative, although I agree with the sentiment that “with Obama, you thought you were getting someone progressive.”
    
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- Norwegian Filmmaker says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 6:07 pm
  
  Joel Herman, I respectfully ask why I’m heading into dangerous territory?
  
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Duane E Swacker says:

May 22, 2018 at 9:21 am

From the article:

“Oh, and speaking of guns, remember how Duncan tried to militarize the D.O.E. back in 2010? His purchase of 27 assault rifles had me wondering back then, if we needed an assault weapons ban on Arne?” (although they weren’t assault rifles but Remington 870 pump shotguns-big difference)

WTF. The DOE needed 27 shotguns? I wonder who has control of those guns now. Two bits says no one knows.

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- Roy Turrentine says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 10:40 am
  
  Was I the only one who thought that the idea of ordering assault rifles for the department of education sounded like something too silly to have actually happened in history?
  
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  - Duane E Swacker says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:05 am
    
    There is a link on the linked Klonsky post that actually shows the requisition itself. You know, just when one thinks things can’t get any more absurd, well. . . . .
    
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:14 am
    
    “Arne A. Duncan”
    
    Arne’s middle name
    Is really just Absurd
    It’s really quite insane
    But more than just a word
    
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  - dienne77 says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:22 am
    
    Never know when you’re going to need an assault rifle or two (or twenty-seven) to collect student loan debt from the wrong person.
    
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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 10:50 am
  
  Grizzly bears, Duane.
  
  I mean the grizzly bears probably have them.
  
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  - Duane E Swacker says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:07 am
    
    I wonder if Betsy has been practicing with them shooting at griz targets??? I’m sure there are a few shooting facilities for federal employees that need to practice.
    
    But the most important question in my mind is: Can DeVos wingshoot?
    
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:16 am
    
    I’d guess yes, since she hangs around with all the wingnuts.
    
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 11:38 am
    
    A better question might be Can Betsy wingsuit?
    
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    May 22, 2018 at 11:40 am
    
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  - Ms.Cartwheel....Librarian says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:20 pm
    
    SDP, enough already! I have hurt myself laughing. I can only imagine the stories YOUR teachers could tell!
    
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  - Duane E Swacker says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 5:50 pm
    
    Wingsuiting. Hmmm. Nah, I’ll keep my two feet on the ground unless they in a certified airplane with a certified pilot.
    
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- retiredbutmissthekids says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 4:44 pm
  
  Good point, Duane. They probably wound up in the hands of some gang banging shooters to make the point of how terrible Chicago Public Schools (& teachers, of course) are, producing criminals, due to the fact that the students are getting such a bad education.
  & those are the youth that Arne is now visiting in jail (& he’s HELPING them, too, in his $$$$ position at the Emerson Collective!!!)
  
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- Roy Turrentine says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 5:07 pm
  
  Well! If I had known it was Remington’s I would have instantly understood. It was an object lesson in American History, no doubt. My respect for the author of Rape to the Crop has grown like the national debt.
  
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retired teacher says:

May 22, 2018 at 9:43 am

“Vice News” gave a camera to a student from Santa Fe, TX, and he interviewed various students. Few called for gun control. Most of them parroted the same old NRA line, “People kill people, not guns.” One student mentioned that a number of parents are transferring their children out of the school. I hope the multiple murders do not frighten parents away from public schools.

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- BackAgain says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 11:54 am
  
  They do.
  
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- ciedie aech says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 12:48 pm
  
  And they truly believe that it is not a probability in private schools?
  
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  - BackAgain says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 1:20 pm
    
    Moreover, it is a probability in the whole country, so the ultimate solution is to leave the country. Too radical for most people. But schools seem to attract more maniacs than movie theaters, night clubs or churches, go figure.
    
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SomeDAM Poet says:

May 22, 2018 at 10:32 am

Every time you think you have heard the worst idea from Duncan, you haven’t.

“Worst ideas all the way down”

Duncan’s worst idea
Is resting on another
And what is very clear
Is that one had a mother

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jake jacobs says:

May 22, 2018 at 12:38 pm

I was researching the history of teacher evaluations in NY last night and came across an article about another awful Arne idea. I knew Mayor Bloomberg was involved but hadn’t realized Arne was also onboard with the idea of publishing teachers names in the newspaper along with their students test scores.

This actually happened in NYC and LA and Arnie Duncan defended it saying the people need to know the truth. Never mind that the scores were incredibly inaccurate, attributed to the wrong teachers, out of date and subject to myriad unaccounted factors. My friend had her name published despite being on a leave of absence.

This latest move is ridiculous and I believe trying to distract from the teachers striking against austerity practices. Arne would rather have them protesting guns to preserve low taxes on billionaires.

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- dianeravitch says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 2:29 pm
  
  Jake,
  
  Arne applauded the publication of teacher ratings in NYC and LA.
  
  He said anyone who opposed this barbaric invasion of privacy was afraid of the “truth.” Basically, he believes that our teachers are awful and our kids are dumb and coddled.
  
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  - jake jacobs says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 5:28 pm
    
    I wonder if the teacher doxxing was designed to be bargained away in exchange for not challenging the validity of APPR.
    
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- Roy Turrentine says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 5:19 pm
  
  Diane: How is it possible to impart motivation to another person? He has said, I agree, that our teachers are awful. Still, political narrative does not have a history of corresponding to the actual belief system of the person utterig the words. I accuse political risers like Duncan of uttering anything that will the political hay place in the barn.
  
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SomeDAM Poet says:

May 22, 2018 at 3:04 pm

“The Teacher” (after “The Lorax”, by Dr.
Seuss)

Teacher: I am the teacher. I speak for
the kids. I speak for the kids, for the kids
have no tongues. And I’m asking you sir,
at the top of my lungs – that thing! That
horrible thing that you did! What’s that
thing that you did with my beautiful kid?

Dunce-ler: Look, teacher, calm down.
There’s no cause for alarm. I tested one
child, I’m doing no harm. This thing is
most useful! This thing is a “PARCC.” A
PARCC, a fine something-that-glows-in-
the-dark! It’s a test. It’s a count. It’s a
score! It’s a VAM! But it has other uses,
yes, for fraud and for scam. You can use
it for firing, for hiring, for cheats, for
charters, or covers for bicycle seats!

Teacher: Sir, you’re crazy. You’re crazy
as Snark. There’s no one on earth who
will buy that fool PARCC!

[Just then, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo
drives up and purchases a million PARCC
tests for NY schools]

The Dunce-ler: The birth of an industry,
you poor, stupid guy! You telling me
what the public will buy?

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- Roy Turrentine says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 5:22 pm
  
  SDP: I stand in awe of you active association disorder. O that I could beef up my own with ideas beyond the bucolic.
  
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  - SomeDAM Poet says:
    
    May 22, 2018 at 5:43 pm
    
    I’ve been seeing my Doctor about that.
    
    Dr. Seuss
    
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retiredbutmissthekids says:

May 22, 2018 at 4:49 pm

We should compile a book about all the dumb idea/statements Arne has come up with.
Among all of Diane’s readers, there must be a doozy each one of us can offer!
A title, Some Dam–?

& the profits should go to the N.P.E.

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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 5:17 pm
  
  Here’s some possibikities (after poem titles):
  
  “The Duncan-Kluger Effect”
  “America Ruins on Duncan”
  “Dunc an Cover”
  “Worst ideas all the way down”
  “The Era or Arne Error”
  “The Arneanderthals”
  “No Camel Left Behind”
  “Arne’s Brain ?”
  “The White Suburban Mom Insult Vehicle”
  
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retiredbutmissthekids says:

May 22, 2018 at 5:29 pm

LOVE “America Ruins on Duncan!”

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- SomeDAM Poet says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 5:40 pm
  
  “America ruins on Duncan”
  
  “America ruins on Duncan”
  The motto of “reform”
  Where every school is dunkin*
  And dough nut$ are the norm
  
  *Flunkin also works
  
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- Norwegian Filmmaker says:
  
  May 22, 2018 at 6:05 pm
  
  America runs away from Duncan……
  
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Bob says:

May 23, 2018 at 1:40 pm

Anybody else see the blatant hypocrisy in Arne cheering for parents to band together and demand change? Last time that happened he vomited some diatribe about white suburbanites moms and how teachers and schools lie to kids.

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