The New York Daily News published an opinion piece attacking Bernie Sander’s call for a moratorium on charter schools, echoing the NAACP and Black Lives Matter. The article claimed that Senator Sanders was hurting children of color.
Carol Burris and I published a response in the same publication to the attack, which is included here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Suspending extraordinarily high percentages of children of color when they are in Kindergarten and first grade and justifying it by the innuendo that those 5 and 6 year olds are all acting out violently and dangerously in their classrooms (something only racists would believe) is hurting children of color.
Lobbying hard against spending any money on small class sizes or more funding by claiming that charters prove that severely disadvantaged at-risk students don’t need small class sizes or more funding, they just need the right teachers and curriculum to turn them all into high performing scholars is hurting children of color.
Working as hard as you can to lobby for Betsy DeVos to be confirmed by the Senate and demanding that DeVos and her view of education be empowered for the good of children everywhere is hurting children of color.
The NY Daily News and their editorial staff has always been willing to throw children of color under the bus when they need to. They only profess concern when something that helps a small percentage of those students while harming a much larger number of students is being challenged because in that case, as long as any students get a benefit, the NY Daily News doesn’t care how many are harmed.
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Thanks Diane and Carol for fighting the good fight and getting the truth and actual facts out there in the public domain! The hits against Bernie are unending and rife in the media, it’s so rare to get blow back from all the anti-Bernie propaganda.
If I had my druthers, I would ban charter schools, they are anti-democratic and steal funds from the real public schools.
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I sent this New York Daily News article to Representative Chyung [D-IN] and Senator ‘blockhead’ Niemeyer [R-IN] who knows that Indiana GOP is doing great stuff by putting more money into private charters, adding more voucher money and not closing down virtual schools. This is done while pubic schools are terribly underfunded and teachers are working 2-3 jobs to survive. There was a surge of money given to private charter schools this year, much more than what was given to public schools.
I made my comment and thanked Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris for writing this article.
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Creating separate an unequal schools with public money is never a good idea, and enhanced segregation should never be accepted in this country. This is what private charter schools produce. The sheer waste, embezzling and brazen profiteering in private charter schools on the public dime are shameful. Privatization has been the agenda of the 1%, not working families in this country. I am delighted that Bernie supports Main St. over Wall St. The charter lobby is parasitic byproduct of the corrupt charter industry, Bernie should be proud of their criticism because he speaks the truth, and he stands with the opinion of most Americans that want to see investment in legitimate public schools.
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“The claim that for-profit charter schools, which Sanders’ plan would ban, are rare is flatly wrong. Nearly every state with charter schools allows for-profit management companies to run them. In the state of Florida, about 45% of all charter schools are run by for-profit management companies.”
Wow. Odd that we never hear THAT stat quoted in the universal, lockstep acclaim for Florida ed reform. That’s higher than Michigan.
Incidentally, every single for profit charter is federally funded one way or another. Charter schools are eligible for all federal funding that public schools get, in addition to the special funding that only charter schools get.
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Michigan is 80% for profit charters
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The article itself is up at oped, https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Bernie-is-Right-about-Cha-in-General_News-Bernie-Sanders_Charter-School-Failure_Charter-Schools_Diane-Ravitch-190608-8.html#comment735952
with this comment which has links at the above address.
I offer you some articles that offer a look at the CHARTER SCHOOL HOAX… a grand theft of taxpayer moneys that public education is GONE! and I Have hundreds more. or go to my series here at OPED Series Page for 15,880 Districts in 50 States: already divided for conquering. | OpEdNews
https://www.opednews.com/Series/15-880-Districts-in-50-Sta-by-Susan-Lee-Schwartz-140921-34.html?f=15-880-Districts-in-50-Sta-by-Susan-Lee-Schwartz-140921-34.html
Who Benefits from Unlimited Expansion of Charter Schools?
National Education Policy Center Reviews Claims about Fiscal Impact of Charters and Finds Them Shallow and Misleading
Oakland: A Must-Read Lexicon of Charter Frauds
Jeff Bryant: The Waste of Millions of Federal Dollars on Charters in Louisiana
Carol Burris: Florida Charters Are a Swamp of Waste, Fraud, and Profiteering
Jan Resseger: Ohio’s Failed Charter Schools.
Ohio: Two-Thirds of Charter Schools Are Rated D or F, But Charter Industry Wants More Money
San Diego: Eleven People Indicted in Connection to Online Charter Fraud
Milwaukee: Former School Board President Convicted of Accepting Bribes from Charter Operator
Betsy DeVos and Payday for the Charter Industry!
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Excellent response, strong, readable, researched, thank you.
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What Ira said. So well crafted! With recent charter crimes the argument against charters is evolving past the point of being irrefutable to where it’s overwhelmingly powerful. Thank you Bernie. Thank you Diane and Carol.
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Great piece. And really important. Kudos to The Daily News for running it!
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Every mobstream (not a typo) media outlet (especially NY Times, Washington Post and NPR) is going to attack Sanders on pretty much every issue from now until the Democratic primary.
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They will attack him anyway. It will just be one more item on their list. At least he is exposing the corporate-government collusion against public education. He is doing a public service for public education and democracy.
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They won’t stop when the primaries are done. They won’t stop until there is free market everything and taxes pay only for armed forces to protect wealth. If a Democrat were able to win the nomination, the media would keep trying to pull the candidate and the country to the right. If and when Bernie wins the nomination, wait and see the so-called (Koch-called) liberal media try to support the incumbent doofus-in-chief by attacking Bernie.
The incumbent fast food addict is giving the owners of the few remaining news conglomerates tax breaks. He’s giving them charter slush funds. He’s stomping on labor and the poor for them. Electing a true progressive will take all hands on deck, every step of the way into and beyond November, 2020.
Please, everyone, donate to NPE and to Bernie 2020.
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You are right.
Despite their pretense to the contrary, the mobstream media zctuslly prefers Trump to Sanders.
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Yep. And by the way, I meant “…if a Democrat other than Bernie were to win the nomination…” up there.
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NY times, Washington Post and NPR have already sharpened the knives to be used on Sanders.
“Sharpened knives”
The knives for Bernie Sanders
Are sharpened by the mob
The mob at Times and Standards
To make progressives sob
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You are so right. May I, though, offer “To make the People sob.” Progressives aren’t the only ones hurting in the data driven Uber-Walmart-Amazon economy.
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True, but the mobstream media REALly want to stick the knife in progressives.
You can see (and hear, on NPR) the contempt that they have for progressives.
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We progressives do give them headaches, don’t we. Good for us progressives! What would happen if Bill Gates didn’t get a regular earful from us about his education “experiments”?
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exactly
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I applaud the two of you, with your abilities to respond so promptly and articulately.
If we could get but a dozen more similarly placed, similarly respected liberals to lend their vocies to this fight…
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One of the problems is sheer ignorance. Ravitch and Burris are both experts on this stuff. They’ve spent an enormous amount of time researching it. It’s difficult to find others who have anything like their level of knowledge of what’s been happening in the charter industry. The amazingly refreshing thing is that Bernie Sanders has shown himself interested in actually learning from those who have expertise. That’s incredibly refreshing. What a change from business as usual among our politicians and candidates!
Feel the Bern.
And thank you, Diane and Carol!
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Sanders has also acquired staff who are truly interested in learning.
The fact that someone from his staff actually SAT down with Diane and then went back and weaved much of what she said into the Sanders platform is truly remarkable for a politician.
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You can imagine how much corporations will like having Bernie for president. Higher minimum wages, wanting horrible things like Medicare for All and expecting corporations to ‘pay their fair share’ of taxes? You can already see the corporate funding to label him a ‘socialist’ who will destroy this country. Trump, the ignorant blowhard, gives these people what they want. Nothing should cut into corporate profits and more for the wealthy.
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Sanders seizes 2020 megaphone to attack companies over minimum wage
June 6, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is using his 2020 campaign bully pulpit to target companies from Walmart to McDonald’s as he pursues a long-standing goal: raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The 2020 hopeful has made raising the minimum wage a core theme of his 2020 run, one that encapsulates his fight against income inequality and “corporate greed” but also exposes him to strong pushback by businesses and conservatives.
Sanders appeared before Walmart shareholders this week to push for a $15 minimum wage, and he is set to rally on Sunday with McDonald’s workers in Iowa demanding higher wages.
“Despite the incredible wealth of its owner, Walmart pays many of its employees starvation wages, wages that are so low that many of these employees are forced to rely on government programs like food stamps, Medicaid and public housing in order to survive,” Sanders said to Walmart shareholders.
“Walmart can afford to pay its employees a living wage of at least $15 an hour and that is not a radical idea,” he also said…
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447492-sanders-seizes-2020-megaphone-to-hit-companies-over-minimum-wage
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The DNC is attempting to do the same thing to Bernie this time that it did in 2016. Want to know who these people are who control the DNC? Well, they just notified the Democratic presidential candidates that they would NOT hold a climate-change-related debate and would bar any candidates who participated in such a debate from future debates. Clearly, the DNC cares only about its big corporate and wealthy donors and not about our climate and our future.
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Nancy Pelosi also recently crafted a drug pricing bill in secret in order to help her pals at Big Pharma
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/06/citing-fears-americans-getting-screwed-progressive-democrats-call-out-pelosi
She has also effectively taken impeachment off the table, as she did with Bush.
With Democrats like Pelosi, who needs Republicans?
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The DNC are made up of dishonest hacks.
They will do their damnedest to ensure that Sanders does not get the nomination.
Hopefully, progressives have a mole on the inside.😀
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Mole at the DNC?
Make them nervous
Of a mole
Out their scurvyous
Crooked goal
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The DNC is in the hands of neoliberals. They work to marginalize anyone that truly represents democracy and the will of the people. I fear the AFT is no better. The only thing that will help Bernie is if he wins the primary despite the DNC. Then, they won’t be able to ignore him.
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and scary to watch teachers’ union leadership pushing BIDEN of all people: Arne Duncan redux
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One of Obama’s former staffers stated on CNN that Biden is “rusty” and out of touch with the voters.
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Some Hope for the Country
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Facebook Page
08 June 19
Some hope for the country heading into the weekend. Trump’s approval ratings continue to slide in states that are key to his reelection. His NET approval ratings, according to the latest poll:
New Hampshire: 19 net approval
Wisconsin: -13
Michigan: -12
Iowa: -12
Pennsylvania: -7
Arizona: -6
Ohio: -4
North Carolina: -4
Voters recognize that Trump has failed to deliver on his economic promises, instead delivering huge tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that haven’t trickled down. His tariffs are taking a toll on the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. His refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas is undermining the rule of law.
These are good signs, but we must remain mobilized and united. There’s a lot that could happen between now and Election Day. What do you think?
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I think people need to be very cautious of polls (and pols), especially this far out.
The pollsters could not even get it close to right on the night before the election last time.Not even “gurus” like Nate Silver.
There are far too many unknowns.
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SomeDAM Poet: I agree. BUT it is nice to have some hope once in a while.
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Trump’s approval ratings aren’t going to mean a thing unless the Democrats can field a more palatable candidate. Trump may be lousy, but that doesn’t mean people will be enthusiastic about just anyone to replace him. If the Democrats decide to field Biden, we’ll know they actually don’t have as much concern about Trump as they pretend to.
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Dienne,
Every Democratic candidate is more palatable than Trump. None of them is ignorant, racist, homophobic, sexist, and none caters to the KKK and other white nationalists.
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Criticism of Sanders now is a mere fragment of what will spew out of the hate and fear machine as the general election nears. Elections are no longer about policy and personality. Now elections are about attempting to suppress the opponent’s vote by giving the impression that the person is not trustworthy, then raising the fear level in your supporters by holding out the specter of their election.
Hillary lost primarily because she failed to frighten those who might vote for her with the vision of what a president Trump would look like. Meanwhile, using email, Ben Gazi, and twenty plus years of Clinton hating, the right wing turned out in droves, giving us a president who thrives on dividing the country while accusing the left of dividing the country. Everything Obama did was criticized as divisive. In a chorus of frantic screaming, any program that was designed to help some part of the way things are run was deemed divisive, from the Dreamer program to the opening of the military to LGBTQ, programs that were anything but divisive were used to create fear among the population.
So can the Democrats win with the same technique? Must they use the same technique to win? Is divide and rule now the way the game must be played? You would think that the country would, sooner or later, awaken to the fact that democracy cannot last through fear. We cannot continue to be a representative government if the only motivation in the voting public is fear of the opponent. We may already be over the edge. Sooner of later, we are obliged to accept the failings of our opponents and make peace. Otherwise, a sword.
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Roy,
This campaign tactic actually has a name. FUD.
Fear, uncertainty, and don’t.
It was invented by the nascent PR industry for industry.
It’s a way to undermine the competition not by speaking of what you can do but spreading FUD about the competition.
I have written here that this has been used against public schools by constant reiteration of the “failing” narrative, even though it would be more accurate to say that charters and vouchers are failing.
It was used against Hillary, based on 25 years of hateful misogynistic messaging.
It will be used in this campaign against progressive candidates to claim they are “socialists” who want to destroy old-time America, taking away your guns and your religion.
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The fossil fuel industry (with the help of the American mainstream media whose idea of journalism is to balance a scientist with a flat earther) has used the same strategy to manufacture fear (that people are after their hamburgers) uncertainty and doubt (about the reality of human caused climate change).
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As I’ve said before, my brother wanted Sarah Palin to be president. The reason was, “Guns, babies and Jesus”.
Yep.
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Turn the other Gun
If Jesus were around today
He’d surely join the NRA
Cuz God knows Jesus is the one
To surely turn the other gun
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“Hillary lost primarily because she failed to frighten those who might vote for her with the vision of what a president Trump would look like.”
I disagree. I think that’s pretty much all she did. Don’t vote for Trump or the “deplorables” will be running the country.
What she failed to do was offer any sort of positive vision to counteract Trump’s appeals to scapegoating. “No we can’t!” might as well have been her campaign slogan. No we can’t have single-payer healthcare, support for the public commons, a draw-down of the military empire or a clean environment – and those of you demanding such “free stuff” are just babies living in your mommies’ basements. Sorry, but that kind of attitude doesn’t draw the voters.
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You may have a point in that a positive change message was missing. I am not sure her Deplorables suggestion was very scary, but it was true. What we got from trump was a lot of ideas whose purveyors are accepted in polite discourse and who used to be considered outlandish.
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Trump lied and claimed that he knew how to solve every problem and “make America great again.” In fact, he is an ignoramus who has no idea what to do other than to threaten, blunder, intimidate, and pander to gullible voters, who were fooled into believing he cares about them. Other than getting their vote, he doesn’t care about them and wants them only to cheer him, but don’t touch him.
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I like George Conway’s comment:
Do yourself and the country a favor. Resign and seek the psychological treatment you so obviously need.
George Conway
@gtconway3d
You’re not “presidential” at all, period. You’re mentally unwell. You engage in bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior, which prompts criticism of you, which triggers more bizarre, irrational, self-defeating behavior. You would have been fired from any other job by now.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
I know it is not at all “Presidential” to hit back at the Corrupt Media, or people who work for the Corrupt Media, when they make false statements about me or the Trump Administration. Problem is, if you don’t hit back, people believe the Fake News is true. So we’ll hit back!
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This does not surprise me. I have Chinese friend who said that gays can choose to be gay or not. Muslim men are allowed to marry four women. They are supposed to get permission from the other wives but that doesn’t always happen. One fellow went to Thailand to be married and came back with another wife. He maintains that they all get along well. If a woman has no way to support herself then what else is she going to say?
I lived in an apartment and across from me was a woman who was married. Her husband would come every so often and spend the night. I could see when his car was parked in the area. He was staying with a newer wife who was younger.
There are ’temporary wives’. Get ‘married’ do your marriage thing and then have a divorce. A law was passed that it was not permissible for a man to divorce his wife by sending her an email saying, “I divorce you.” three times.
And then there is the issue of child brides.
Some countries have even further than the US to get to respecting all members of society. Some of our overseas embassies are not following the directive to not show gay pride flags. Good for them!
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In Muslim Malaysia, uproar over LGBT groups at Women’s Day march
Reuters March 10, 2019
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, calling it “a misuse of democratic space”.
The statement comes amid concerns over growing persecution of the LGBT community in the Muslim-majority country, where sodomy and other same-sex acts are outlawed.
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in September last year that Malaysia could not accept same-sex marriage or LGBT rights.
Mujahid Yusof Rawa, the minister in charge of religious affairs, said the government did not recognize LGBT practices as lawful.
“I am very shocked with the actions of certain parties… that misused democratic space in order to defend things that are wrong from the point of view of Islam,” he said in a statement posted on his Facebook account on Saturday night.
Other groups condemning the presence of LGBT activists at the march include Parti Se-Islam Malaysia (PAS), a conservative Islamic party, and the United Malay National Organization (UMNO), which ruled Malaysia for six decades before being toppled by Mahathir’s coalition last year.
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday calling for greater women’s rights, media reported.
The rally’s organizers, led by women’s rights groups, said the focus on the LGBT community was a distraction from key demands, such as calls for a dignified minimum wage, a ban on child marriage, and an end to patriarchy and violence based on gender and sexual orientation.
“Disproportionate attention was made to single out and target the presence of LGBT participants,” the march’s organizing committee said in a statement Sunday.
“This borders on incitement to hatred and violence towards a section of Malaysian society who are already at risk and facing multiple forms of discrimination.”
The attack on the LGBT community is the latest in a series of incidents in the past few months that civil rights groups say illustrate growing hostility against gay and transgender people in Malaysia….
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/muslim-malaysia-uproar-over-lgbt-groups-womens-day-072027674.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma
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“Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in September last year that Malaysia could not accept same-sex marriage or LGBT rights.”
When I first came to Kuala Lumpur to work in 1998, Prime Minister Mahathir would emphatically state that there were no gays in Malaysia. That, according to him, was strictly a Western problem.
Mahathir was recently elected as prime minister at the age of 92 because the former PM was so blatantly corrupt.
I guess it’s SLIM progress to go from saying there are no gays to now not accepting any gay rights.
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Reblogged this on Mister Journalism: "Reading, Sharing, Discussing, Learning".
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I like this story and am passing it onward.
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A Short Tale that Will Remind You of a Person’s True Value
From time to time there are people who don’t want what’s best for you, and manage to shake your self-confidence, causing you to feel unappreciated, especially during difficult times. For children who are still developing their personality, this can be devastating, so it is important to remind them how much you value them. The following short story will remind you of your true value, so share it with your children and friends so they won’t forget, even for a minute, that they are valued by you.
One morning, Mr. Johnson entered the classroom where he teaches, holding a $100 note. After a few moments, when the students finally quieted down, he raised his hand that was holding the note up and asked his students: “Who wants this bill?”
Of course, all of the children raised their hands, each hoping to be the lucky winner.
Mr. Johnson lowered his hand and proceeded to fold the note several times, and asked: “And now, who still wants the bill?”. Once more, all of the children raised their hands.
Next, Mr. Johnson threw the note on the floor, stepped on it, then picked it up and scrunched it into a dirty little ball. A few seconds later he cleared his throat and asked: “And now, who still wants the bill?”. All of the students laughed, as they were surprised by the teacher’s behavior, but all of them still raised their hands.
Mr. Johnson then asked the class: “And what did you learn from this?”
None of the students answered, as they didn’t understand what it is that they were supposed to learn.
Mr. Johnson stood in the middle of the class, holding the wrinkled note and said: “You, my dear pupils, are like this $100 bill. Sometimes people will hurt you, step on you, crush you and mock you. You must remember then that each of you has value, each of you is special and unique, and just like this bill didn’t change its value when I folded it or stepped on it, no one else can lower your value either.
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Wonderful story!!!
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Bernie understands what is happening to the economy. He is also against private charter schools that siphon money from public schools. I like both Bernie and Warren. Both will be castigated by the main stream media and the DNC. I don’t know how she was received in Ft. Wayne. Red states…ugh.
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Here’s what Elizabeth Warren understands about the economy — that other Democrats do not
June 9, 2019
…“We’re in Fort Wayne, Indiana, because people in Indiana understand jobs,” Warren said at her Town Hall. “They understand how you build an economy that doesn’t just work for a thin slice at the top, but an economy that works for everyone.”
She continued. “But people in Fort Wayne, Indiana, also understand that leaving it to a handful of giant multinational corporations to build our economy just isn’t working. You know, those big corporations, they don’t have any loyalty to America. They don’t have any loyalty to American workers. They have loyalty to exactly one thing, and that is their own profits. And what we’ve got to do is we’ve got to have a government that doesn’t say, hey, whatever it is that the giant multinational corporations want, let us help you. We’ve got to have a government that says we need this economy — we need this country to work for working people. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
There’s not much time.
This socio-economic erosion of prospects for our children has been underway awhile. The America that was once rooted in the notion that each successive generation would do better economically than their parents is rapidly slipping into our rearview mirror…
https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/heres-what-elizabeth-warren-understands-about-the-economy-that-other-democrats-do-not/#.XP0iABCbSUc.gmail
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Great link!
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This type of ‘free junk’ is being given to teachers in Indiana and as far away as Ohio. over 1000 educators attended. Yep. Nothing like ‘ditching textbooks’ and having students “access, learn from and even teach technology themselves across subject areas”. This ‘motivational’ speaker came from Canada. How lucky we are. [Can he now stay in Canada and not promote more tech to new teachers who don’t know how to teach?] How many students are motivated enough to teach themselves, or their peers? Who needs personal involvements when tech is the answer?
Do these teachers realize that they are eliminating their jobs?
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[NWI Times] South Shore eLearning Conference inspires teaching innovation with a student-first mindset
HAMMOND — Technology is more than a tool, George Couros told a full auditorium of teachers and educators Thursday morning.
Through personal family memories, videos, memes and more, the Canadian educational speaker and author brought personality to the ongoing conversation of how best to teach tech in the classroom in his keynote speech at this year’s South Shore eLearning Conference.
Couros challenged teachers to think outside of their traditional lesson plans and to embrace changing technology like social media, personal blogs and more….
Couros was one of two keynote speakers to address the two-day conference at Morton High School before educators split off in professional development breakout sessions teaching ways to put Couros’ advice into action.
School City of Hammond eCoach Alisha Foor, who helped organize the event, said that with more than 1,000 educators registered, this year’s conference was the biggest yet…
Partnering with the Indiana Department of Education’s Office of eLearning grant program, the conference has more than 60 sponsors and was free for all educators, some coming from as far as southern Indiana and Ohio…
Sarah Darwish, an English as a new language coach at Clark Middle/High School, said she attended sessions advocating for innovative thinking and classroom engagement through allowing students to teach their peers.
“Each year it gets better,” said Darwish, who’s been to the Hammond-based conference in previous years.
Other featured speakers like Buddy Berry, superintendent of Eminence Schools in Eminence, Kentucky, and education speaker Matt Miller brought messages of transformational learning through ditching textbooks and developing student agency…
In his keynote, Couros reinforced the idea of digital creativity, allowing students to access, learn from and even teach technology themselves across subject areas….
https://www.nwitimes.com/news/education/south-shore-elearning-conference-inspires-teaching-innovation-with-a-student/article_3dc0022e-770b-5891-b285-972f842630b0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
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There are still some decent judges. How sad that this trans boy had to go through this.
A staggering 41 percent of transgender people in the United States have attempted to commit suicide, according to a new survey. About 19 percent of transgender people report being refused medical care because of their gender-nonconforming status, and a shocking 2 percent have been violently assaulted in a doctor’s office.
These statistics are just some of the sobering findings from a survey of more than 7,000 transgender people conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, released in October 2010.
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Federal judge: EVSC violated transgender student’s civil rights
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A federal judge has ruled Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation violated civil rights protections by not allowing a transgender boy to use the men’s restrooms at school.
The EVSC student sued the school district through the American Civil Liberties Union after school authorities told him he could only use the women’s restrooms or a gender-neutral restroom in the nurse’s office, located far from the student’s classes. The student was told he would face discipline for using men’s restrooms without permission.
In a ruling issued Friday, U.S. District Court Senior Judge William Lawrence wrote that EVSC’s practice – allowing transgender students to use gender-neutral restrooms but not restrooms corresponding to their gender identity – violated Title IX, whether or not the school district knew it affected any specific student like the boy named in the case.
Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2019/06/07/federal-judge-evsc-violated-transgender-students-rights/1387486001/
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Enough of the serious stuff. I LOVED the music teacher who said, “Everyone hold up your recorders. And on the count of three snap them in half.” I also liked the one where the teacher says, “I hear your parents split up over the holidays. Do you have a picture of your dad.”
I was a single music teacher who taught recorders.
Things Teachers Never Say
Now that school is out for summer it’s a good time to reflect back on the school year and watch a funny look at Things Teachers Never Say but wish they could. Even Little Johnny might be shocked and surprised if his teacher really did say what they were thinking
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