"Liberal" blowhard Dean bravely stands up for Corporate "Ed Reform"

[Setanta84]

"Liberal" blowhard Dean bravely stands up for Corporate "Ed Reform"

This guy really needs to shut the fuck up and realize he hasn't been relevant to national politics in a decade.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/02/neo...ers_unions_and_the_politics_of_false_choices/

TFA is and always has been run by upper middle class cronies of wealthy union busters who have never worked a day of labor in their lives and don't understand the realities of life of working people or poverty in America.

It exists to turn upper middle class kids coming out of college into adults who have basically internalized discriminatory ways of viewing poor people and workers.

Also, it is basically designed to help destabilize classrooms and the labor force by providing unskilled scab labor at a cheaper rate than skilled professionals. And that's assuming the "teachers" honor their full two year commitment to the program--and many do not.

 

[KingOrfeo]

This guy really needs to shut the fuck up and realize he hasn't been relevant to national politics in a decade.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/02/neo...ers_unions_and_the_politics_of_false_choices/

Got you to look, didn't he?

TFA is and always has been run by upper middle class cronies of wealthy union busters who have never worked a day of labor in their lives and don't understand the realities of life of working people or poverty in America.

It exists to turn upper middle class kids coming out of college into adults who have basically internalized discriminatory ways of viewing poor people and workers.

Also, it is basically designed to help destabilize classrooms and the labor force by providing unskilled scab labor at a cheaper rate than skilled professionals. And that's assuming the "teachers" honor their full two year commitment to the program--and many do not.

What do you base all that on?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Got you to look, didn't he?



What do you base all that on?

Knowing the history of TFA I imagine.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Knowing the history of TFA I imagine.

The TFA he describes is not the actually existing TFA.

 

[Setanta84]

The TFA he describes is not the actually existing TFA.

I went to the school that provides the most TFA members in the country, personally know TFA alumni, have dealt professionally with TFA staff, and have met Wendy Kopp and Michelle Rhee--but, yes, that Wikipedia article on them really blows everything I said out of the water. Mea culpa. Mea culpa.

 

[Setanta84]

Without the snark, it's a horrible organization filled with horrible people.

The basic concept behind TFA is that the "achievement gap" isn't there because public education in lower-income neighborhoods has been systematically starved of funds and dismantled since the tax revolt of the 1970s, or that there is anything wrong with the system or American society as it currently exists per se--it's that poor kids have lazy, neglectful, and stupid parents.

They make grandiose, transparently bullshit claims like "I met a 17-year-old child who couldn't read the menu at McDonald's and got him to read at grade level in a year." Uh, no, you didn't. If that were fucking possible, we wouldn't put kids through 12 years of school. We'd just have a bunch of super teachers from TFA handle kindergarten and send these kids directly to college at age six.

They also are weirdly abusive. They are all about literally controlling the bodies of students. The program is NOT about education, it's about training students to be drones that literally take order about how to move and think and never question the system.

 

[dan_c00000]

The TFA he describes is not the actually existing TFA.

Sorry King. You're wrong on this one. TFA's only goal is to destroy teacher's union and provide a low quality education for kids.

Major donors of evil things, the Wal-Mart Waltons, provide money to TFA. TFA provides poor quality teachers and, of course, the whole thing is a way to privatize education in the U.S.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

unions are for the week and lazy ... they also promote slavery. are you a slave?

Sorry King. You're wrong on this one. TFA's only goal is to destroy teacher's union and provide a low quality education for kids.

Major donors of evil things, the Wal-Mart Waltons, provide money to TFA. TFA provides poor quality teachers and, of course, the whole thing is a way to privatize education in the U.S.

 

[rosco rathbone]

This guy really needs to shut the fuck up and realize he hasn't been relevant to national politics in a decade.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/02/neo...ers_unions_and_the_politics_of_false_choices/

TFA is and always has been run by upper middle class cronies of wealthy union busters who have never worked a day of labor in their lives and don't understand the realities of life of working people or poverty in America.

It exists to turn upper middle class kids coming out of college into adults who have basically internalized discriminatory ways of viewing poor people and workers.

Also, it is basically designed to help destabilize classrooms and the labor force by providing unskilled scab labor at a cheaper rate than skilled professionals. And that's assuming the "teachers" honor their full two year commitment to the program--and many do not.

Right on. Welcome to the politics board.