The news just keeps getting worser and worser. NYT today – Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing
Nothing reflects the systematic destruction of the American dream more than the deconstruction of our system of public schools. Even president Obama is razzled and dazzled by the free competitive markets scam. Anyone who understands child development and education knows that performance-based pay for teachers and charter schools that compete with public schools for students is a recipe for educational disaster. Individual teachers do not determine educational outcomes and selective institutions with gimmicks do not make an educational system.
There are no low-performing schools in rich communities and the lowest performing schools are embedded in impoverished communities. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going on, though it might help if people had even a modest acquaintance with the art of thought rather than bellies distended from the crap dished out by corporate ad men, lobbyists, and political lackeys.
Such destruction! It makes a man want to cry.
