NYC Teachers Hit Back... At Long Friggin' LAST.

[Smarmie Doofus]

39. Weiner talks a lot (and writes a lot) about these things.

>>> the international finance capital lurking in the background, the world bank & imf involvement in the long range planning, etc. would be eye-opening -- but maybe people wouldn't believe it & would think it was 'conspiracy theory,' i dunno. >>>

And gets kind of frustrated when everyone else isn't exactly seeing all she's seeing. (You'll see this in Part Two). I more or less agree w. her analysis but I think real reform-reformers can fight on a number of different levels. ( Cornel West said somewhere something about everyone looking at the same thing thru a set of different lenses. Doesn't mean they're not ALL right.)

It's dumb, tactically, if you ask me, to talk about the IMF and expect teachers to come out on a Sat. afternoon, and travel a distance to hear you analyze the imf and the world bank and the long history of global corporate school reform starting in the third wordl. The people I worked with are too friggin' tired, and stressed, and frightened to be able to hear that kind of analysis.

They're worried about short term, immediate danger : being classroom- observed, rated unsatisfactory ( or whatever the equivlent is outside of NYC) and dismissed and getting banned from working in the profession that they always wanted to work in and that they spent many years preparing and getting licensed for.

This is actually happening to people. Right now. Teacher advocates have to speak to that anxiety, or no one is going to hear anything else they say.