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(3,284 posts)The anti-union/pro-investor group side has a well-known modus operandi:
Again and again, kids and parents from low income/impacted areas are located (often families with
legitimate gripes that are sublimated for their handlers' purposes),
they are programmed, and used by the anti-union/investor side to push charter schools or a similar agenda.
The issue at hand is always skillfully attached to the family's gripes, and is done so
with a finesse equivalent to the best Madison Ave minds.
The Parent Trigger Law (and its use/abuse) is an informative example of this process, which has been documented.
Again and again, with the Parent-Trigger Law, the kids and parents used by the anti-union side LATER regret
what they were part of (i.e. privatizing their local school and LOSING local control to portfolio manager-types).
But by the time they realized how they were used, it is way too late, and the process is done.
Future parents?
They'll get those schools back to local control from investors' cold, dead hands.
These just scratch the surface:
http://dianeravitch.net/2013/06/01/parent-trigger-sets-parents-against-parents-in-los-angeles/
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/10/3336512/the-dark-side-of-parent-trigger.html
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/the-disempowerment-of-public-school-parents/
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130329/OPINION/130329438
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/the-weekly-update-the-parent-trigger-its-a-scam-the-charter-school-waiting-list-scam-in-chicago-and-elsewhere-the-common-core-standards-dumped-by-the-rnc-and-more-2/