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Once he learned you were not going to endorse him, he dropped out
I assumed as much!
Lord, Peter. Thanks for the laugh!
There’s more than one city in the US. Duncan might show up in San Francisco or run for governor of Texas of Florida.
Shocking. But there’s always room for him to fail up in still other Gates-funded think tanks where thinking tanks or in Flor-uh-duh politics, where ignorance and incompetence are core competencies.
In Arne Duncan we see a true competitor who left in the dust such strong contenders as Bill Bennett, Rod Paige, and America’s Best Christian, Ditzy DeVoid, to claim the title of Worst Secretary of Education in U.S. history. Against competitors like those, that’s an extraordinary accomplishment!
I know. I know. Cruella’s sister Clueless DeVille has her supporters, but ever since I read the study he and Master of the Universe Bill Gates carried out on using retinal and galvanic skin monitors on students to track in real time their gritful attention to mind-numbing Common Core-y onscreen exercises, he’s been my guy. The Champ. His record of undermining U.S. public schools by promoting privatization and debasing curricula and pedagogy by ensuring that these would focus on prep for trivial, pseudoscientific, invalid tests is equal to none.
That he debased curricula and pedagogy in violation of federal law prohibiting the Department of Education from getting involved in such matters shows unparalleled heedlessness. That he so powerfully undermined public schools while serving as the nation’s chief public schools officer is a profile in courage! Way to sink it, Arne!
Don’t miss his autobiography: From Dribble to Drivel!
“ever since I read the study he and Master of the Universe Bill Gates carried out on using retinal and galvanic skin monitors on students to track in real time their gritful attention to mind-numbing Common Core-y onscreen exercises”
Bob….Is this really true? I mentioned this to someone several years ago in my “Refuse the test” days and that person told me that I was believing in conspiracy theories. Ofc it was likely the VP at the MS my children attended and she was displeased with the amount of work that I was making her do by Refusing the BS tests.
Oh yes, it’s really true. The Department of Education proudly published it on their website. The study used a third technology as well–some sort of chair-mounted motion sensors. Breathtakingly Orwellian means for ensuring that Prole children are being obedient in their attention to whatever mindless task is assigned by their masters. The Department was very proud of this work, funded by Gates. I’ll see if I can find the report. It’s utterly chilling.
This report, which I posted about on Diane’s blog shortly after it appeared on the Dept of Ed website, was removed from the site, I believe, after the whole galvanic skin response tracking thing generated–understandably so–enormous controversy. However, I saved a copy of the report because it was so chilling and insane and presented with such pride as the future of [Prole] education. I’ll do a search for it.
Bob, umpteen years ago I took a job in a primate research facility where scientists used monkeys & apes to study just about everything they could get a grant funding for…alcoholism, aggression, reproduction, monkeys with imbedded electrodes to control their behaviors via electronic signals, NASA weightlessness, etc.
As we review the past trends of public education using our children as research subjects, my memories were constantly on high alert. Once you see electronically controlled rhesus monkeys receiving signals to their brains via surgically embedded electrodes & scientist observing their controlled responses, one is never the same & watchful in the future concerning animals & especially children.
Current technology can easily step over ethical lines if the price is right.
Ever watchful!
An important exemplum, Ms. Hurley!!! Thank you for sharing this!!!
And, if you plug the word galvanic into the search box for Diane’s site (see below), you will see the many posts that she made on these Orwellian technologies.
OK, some clarification. The report on the Education Department Website was called Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance: Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century. The report dealt with these matters in general. Page 44 of the report describes the following technologies for measuring grit, tenacity, and perseverance in the classroom: the facial expression camera, the posture analysis seat, the pressure mouse, and the wireless skin conductance sensor.
Bob….That post is from 2012 and around the time that I started to feel strange about what was happening in my children’s public school (more testing/test prep). I hadn’t found many education sites/blogs yet. Because the only folks complaining about all the “new reforms” were Republican, I was told that I was crazy or repeating right wing talking points. It’s no wonder why I feel such disgust and disconnect from my political party (I’m left leaning…really!). I live in a very blue state.
LisaM, that’s why you belong here! I’m a Democrat and I agree with you about the excessive testing and Common Core.
🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 Arne will dribble on to slip into another game of Imposter vs Imposter. He’ll surface somewhere else where his INCOMPETENCE is needed & the pay is exorbitant.
Exactly
May I suggest that someone give him an Ambassadorship in Viet Nam. I’d pity the citizens of that communist country, but he would have to mind his manners and keep his mouth shut.
TAGO, LisaM!
There was never a chance that he would win, or even get a significant percentage of the votes. Chicago has not forgotten the abject stupidity of his policies and “ideas”, ones he was just a pass through conduit for. I think he knew this and was just linking the people of Chicago with a lie about his intentions. I for one doubt he’ll run in any states that didn’t go for Obama.
punking, not linking
punking
great word choice, KJ!
I’m SO glad he’s not running. Please, Arne Duncan, just go away. Just hearing your name drives up my blood pressure.
The Dunce needs to slither away … for GOOD!
Everything Arne claimed was great for kids has revealed itself to be brutal and stupid.
Doesn’t surprise me that Arne isn’t running to Mayor. It’s one of the hardest jobs in politics and Arne’s career seems to be a series of jobs that require very little except showing up and pretending you know something. The kind of jobs that overprivileged folks can make careers out of. The kind of jobs that folks like Betsy DeVos get.
Hard to do that as a Mayor. And I assume Arne realized that maybe the billionaires who made his career possible wouldn’t have his back when something in Chicago goes wrong.
^^running FOR Mayor.
Arne does not want to do anything so demanding as being a mayor of a large city. He would rather pontificate from his perch above the crowd. He’s big on imagining, but not delivering.
Watching the state of the union getting underway. Looks like it’s now politically, I mean scientifically, ok to not wear masks in large indoor gatherings.
Yes, the CDC, at least at the top has been politicized and neutralized scientifically. Sad, indeed very sad!
Can’t wait to not vote for him.
So why isn’t he going for it? Anagrams can be so illuminating….
ARNE DUNCAN = A CANNED RUN
Oh, but wait! He has mended his ways! He is “the managing partner for Creating Real Economic Destiny,” and his friend, David Axelrod told the Chicago ☀️-Times, “Duncan was ‘basically a shy person…claimed Duncan’s ‘consensus-building’ strengths were (Mayor) Lightfoot’s greatest weakness. Axelrod also said he would not be surprised if his friend decided elected office was not for him.”
You really have to read this TWO page (!!! yes, with a huge picture of A.D. w/a graduate & color pictures of the Mayor & others who might run (& of course Paul Vallas was mentioned in the article). It’s very sad that, in reading this article, one would think Arne is…a saint.
Again, can’t link (maybe someone out there can) but it’s Wed., 3/2 Chicago ☀️-Times, AM edition, pp. 20-12, ” Analysis: Duncan Declines, so Others may Dive in: Former Education Secretary Won’t Run for Mayor, but That Doesn’t
Mean Lightfoot Will Get a Pass” by Fran Spielman, City Hall Reporter.
Just make sure you don’t read this after a meal.
Saint Arne, beloved by the people. https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/3/1/22956740/duncan-mayor-not-running-lightfoot-chicago-mayoral-election-2023-quigley-buckner-jackson
Thanks for the link, Diane. Yes, he’s being made out to be the savior of all wayward youth in Chicago. Chicago Magazine did a nauseatingly fawning puff piece on him (cover story, October issue, 2016) w/his picture on the cover, titled, “Can Arne Duncan Save Chicago?” (I just sent you the link.)
I think he has a guilty conscience for all the wrong he’s done ALL over America (yet, when he opens his mouth about schools & teachers & testing, he continues to do dirt) & this is how he sleeps at night, (Oh, I can’t wait to see all the comments on what I just wrote!)
However, if you’re worth 4.8 million & own a $1.3 million mansion (near the Obamas’ Chicago mansion) & send your kids to the U. of C. Lab School, I guess you sleep just fine. Comfortably.