Michelle Rhee returns to the scene of the scandal

[freshwest]

2. 'Public' and 'charter' schools in the same sentence. 'One of these does not belong.'

A FAPE for all. That's unity. That was what made the boomers some of the most prosperous groups in history, that New Deal legacy from their parents.

Fund the schools and stop playing games. Clean out abuse but don't take away the place that holds communities and lives together.

I've seen first hand when a public school system is run by selfish, unethical people in a rural setting can do, denying chances for advancement for many of the students and favoring the well-off and well-connected. Blatant discrimination.

And I've seen what a public school system dedicated to making a difference in their students' lives can do. The teachers are a large part of that, and they are some of the last of the Commons we have left.

If we don't save them, the place that generations of people used to network and expand opportunities in their lives will be gone and we will suffer from economic apartheid by privatization. The future will be worse than the past.

It's not necessary to do any of this, it's just the Koch and ALEX, theocrats and Libertarians and who push this.

Oh, and the CTers, who push Charles Koch and the John Bircher Society on all of it. They all act in bad faith.