tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post7044784977041282991..comments2023-07-03T05:58:37.124-07:00Comments on THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Bullying or witch hunt?The Perimeter Primatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12619173438763495716noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-19512325241145527192010-03-23T17:55:56.808-07:002010-03-23T17:55:56.808-07:00This was a great piece of blogging, thank you.This was a great piece of blogging, thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-15604385158665528642010-03-21T21:11:28.666-07:002010-03-21T21:11:28.666-07:00Do Public School teachers have any friends at all ...Do Public School teachers have any friends at all left in politics?<br /><br />Here's how Democrats are treating them in Michigan:<br /><br />http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7966531<br /><br /><br />Please pardon this teacher for not voting for Democrats so much anymore, unless they are absolutely, positively<br />Progressive to-the-hilt, and very outspokenly PRO-TEACHER and PRO-PUBLIC SCHOOLS.<br /><br />Sadly, that leaves out most Dems (and nearly ALL repubs) these days.<br /><br />Really simplifies voting,<br />from now on.niktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-10346381955819011762010-03-21T08:08:13.158-07:002010-03-21T08:08:13.158-07:00In the responses here and in the original article,...In the responses here and in the original article, the educational Ponzi scheme has been articulated very, very well. Thank you for allowing me to realize the paranoia is actually acute awareness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-64945643577345202722010-03-18T17:26:41.504-07:002010-03-18T17:26:41.504-07:00Here;s the ugly truth about Obama as an enemy of t...Here;s the ugly truth about Obama as an enemy of teachers:<br /><br /><br />http://www.counterpunch.org/fons03172010.htmlniktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-39400699250778243982010-03-18T16:08:05.678-07:002010-03-18T16:08:05.678-07:00More Conservative contamination regarding educatio...More Conservative contamination regarding education here:<br /><br />http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/who-needs-learnin.html<br /><br /><br /><br />It is time to start asking:<br /><br />IS THE EXISTENCE OF CONSERVATISM PROOF THAT THERE REALLY IS A SATAN?<br /><br />The old horny devil would love himself some conservatism, bigtime, for sure.niktohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13219069038917729013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-17207684694433267842010-03-17T18:45:48.123-07:002010-03-17T18:45:48.123-07:00A really fine, albeit disturbing post.
I'd ju...A really fine, albeit disturbing post.<br /><br />I'd just like to add the following:<br /><br />- Newsweek is not just a megaphone for hysteria and libel directed against teachers. Like Kaplan test prep, a favored recipient of corporate ed deform patronage, it is a subsidiary of the Washington Post Corporation. They are a financially interested party in this debate, and thus their opinion counts for less than zero. <br /><br />As the Wall Street guys who are among the stalkers of public education would say, they've got "skin in the game," and are "talking their book." Everything they say on this subject transacts at an extremely high discount. <br /><br />- Second, while I think your analysis of attacks on teachers as coming from sublimated/misdirected insecurity, anger and confusion is important, let's not leave out plain old, tried-and-true, step-on-your-throat neoliberal opportunism.<br /><br />The US is in the early stages of something very similar to the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) that were imposed on developing countries over the past thirty years, as a result of credit crises. These SAPs entail huge cutbacks, reorganizations, layoffs and privatization in the public sector. They are an in-your-face form of class antagonism, and teacher unions are one of the few institutional barriers against the complete imposition of this economic regime (which, by the way, Barack Obama was hired years ago by Finance and its philanthropic appendages to help broker).<br /><br />Having first looted the economy, then engineered a bailout of their recklessness that has made them even more powerful, Finance is now going for strike three by manipulating the ensuing economic crisis to achieve some long cherished goals. Watch for escalating and intense attacks on public sector unions, their pensions, Social Security, Medicare, and all the vestiges of progressive 20th century struggle.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3359348507190689090.post-10426087404789527212010-03-17T15:54:55.913-07:002010-03-17T15:54:55.913-07:00There's also the undeniable fact that we'r...There's also the undeniable fact that we're one of the last bastions of vibrant unionism in American. It's really a sad time when a Democratic President joins the witch hunt. Stuff like this makes me wonder whether I should retire and move my family, especially my kid, to Canada.NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.com