Let them eat cupcakes. Plus why Michelle Rhee is lawyering up.

[madfloridian]

72. Yes, it's reality now.

I think most of us who post about education understand that since a Democratic president has now joined the Republicans in this new type of corporate reform.....there will be no turning back.

It's been like a steamroller that is way too powerful for teachers with only the voices of a few bloggers to hold back.

I think that now our taxes for schools will be going to Education Management Companies backed by billionaires who have the power.

As for schools being failures, no they are not. Public schools have been the heart of this country, neighborhood schools. So even though parents are organizing at ground level to plead for their schools to stay open, even though teachers' contracts are being voided by outside interests, the schools are not failures.

They have to call them failures so they could turn them over to outside influences.

So you are right about the reality.

I think it is already too late now for public education. I think I will still point out the injustices of someone like Rhee who has contempt for teachers (no matter her words)....being allowed to control things like she does.

If anyone gets satisfaction from that reality, then they can smile now.