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DamnYankeeInHouston

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56. it tears my heart in two

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 07:48 PM

Feb 2014

to have to tell parents to do anything else now than put there kids in Houston's public school. You will be fine. You will be able to work full time or part time on top of your pension. It's the students and teachers we leave behind that worry me. And it's the future of our uneducated country that scares me. It was a personal health issue for me. I couldn't bear the stress anymore. I look after teachers' kids and they tell me it's even worse this year. Your life will be wonderful in a few months. Hang in there.

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GRAPHIC: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools [View all] yurbud Feb 2014 OP

K&R Coyotl Feb 2014 #1

Love the graphic from Yes Magazine. madfloridian Feb 2014 #2

Thought this was your OP. Octafish Feb 2014 #62

That huge traunch of government education cash... elzenmahn Feb 2014 #3

not only that, but if these guys really think they know how to do it better... yurbud Feb 2014 #7

Good Point... elzenmahn Feb 2014 #10

They just want the money. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #29

Precisely. The problem is they are lousy at it. nt bemildred Feb 2014 #4

K&R. And let's again repost "The Big Enchilada." woo me with science Feb 2014 #5

wow--that is the like the Powell Memo and Pentagon Papers of education privatization yurbud Feb 2014 #8

This stuff needs more exposure. jsr Feb 2014 #15

K&R. True motives of more destructive privatization. Overseas Feb 2014 #37

Dupe! Triana Feb 2014 #6

Why? Salviati Feb 2014 #9

I believe you have diagnosed this correctly. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #28

Yep. Nt abelenkpe Feb 2014 #31

Charter schools are a scam. nt SunSeeker Feb 2014 #11

yurbud, I want to print this graphic and put it in my file... truth2power Feb 2014 #12

you might have to print it over two pages yurbud Feb 2014 #23

rec'd and shared.... mike_c Feb 2014 #13

Doese ANYONE here really believe that .... bvar22 Feb 2014 #14

Exactly what I've realized recently... rwsanders Feb 2014 #16

Precisely! JDPriestly Feb 2014 #24

You seem to have nailed it. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #26

<<<<THIS>>> nt antigop Feb 2014 #32

Exactly CFLDem Feb 2014 #39

Apparently, some do. LWolf Feb 2014 #18

Plus plus plus ONE! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #27

This should be its own op bvar22. +1 L0oniX Feb 2014 #41

K&R woo me with science Feb 2014 #17

And when all of the "no-security, poorly paid" teachers Lifelong Protester Feb 2014 #19

I am leaving public education this year.... AnneD Feb 2014 #40

I am sorry that some kids will be losing you Lifelong Protester Feb 2014 #43

You can only take so much.... AnneD Feb 2014 #44

It's a hard decision to make. DamnYankeeInHouston Feb 2014 #52

I have followed your posts..... AnneD Feb 2014 #53

it tears my heart in two DamnYankeeInHouston Feb 2014 #56

It already has gotten better..... AnneD Feb 2014 #61

K&R! DeSwiss Feb 2014 #20

A crushing graphic. blackspade Feb 2014 #21

Don't forget who until recently owned the Washington Post Recursion Feb 2014 #22

no, the Graham family owns Kaplan. kwassa Feb 2014 #64

The privatization of public schools is bullshit! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #25

Wild guess: money and brainwashing. merrily Feb 2014 #30

du rec. xchrom Feb 2014 #33

HUGE k and r! niyad Feb 2014 #34

CorpUSA wants to train a generation of Wall Street dittoheads blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #35

Sad K&R. Overseas Feb 2014 #36

Mind-control. jwirr Feb 2014 #38

Excellent OP! ReRe Feb 2014 #42

The "private sector" was hollowed out years ago, those big piles of government money are Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #45

m.o.n.e.y. spanone Feb 2014 #46

Concise and on target. Bookmarked. K&R Jefferson23 Feb 2014 #47

we're getting close to a tipping point on this. We need something like Occupy or a way yurbud Feb 2014 #48

where are our moderate, centrist, DLC, New Democrat friends telling us how great corporate reform is yurbud Feb 2014 #49

the financial elite don't realize the noose they are making for public ed will hang them yurbud Feb 2014 #50

Good posts, woo me with science Feb 2014 #51

kick woo me with science Feb 2014 #54

we should print this out and mail it Obama, Arne, and congress with a little note that says yurbud Feb 2014 #55

on the corporations mantra treestar Feb 2014 #57

This is easier than competing for customers in the"free market" yurbud Feb 2014 #58

But how do they cooperate with each other? treestar Feb 2014 #60

I wish you were right, but privatization of government services is a well-documented long term yurbud Feb 2014 #63

Thank you. K&R. liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 #59