Bill Gates repudiates key elements of right wing, corporate education "reform"

[DonB]

4. almost there billy

Gates has a lot of ground to make up and he can start with these baby steps:
1) Put some of his vast wealth behind the teachers unions, especially in those states where the right wing is trying to destroy them to allow them to tell the true teaching story instead of hearing it from all these right wing governors and legislators an the puke anti-union monies that are behind them
2) Repudiate ex pretend-a- president little "w" and his "every child without money left behind program" of education reform
3) Repudiate President Obma and his lackey arne duncan’s "race to getting the best test scores anyway you can program" for what it is, another scheme to drive a wedge between the groups that want to co-operate to better schools and those that want to steal
4) Spend some more of his great wealth to hire someone to shadow michele rhee around the country telling people the truth about her pitiful pretense at reform which some call “The Great rhee Robbery”
5) Come out forthrightly against for profit charter schools and voucher programs that are nothing more then ponzi schemes to enrich a few and destroy public education through the ruse of “competition”
6) and finally to promise that no matter what he does to help the education system in this country, not one penny will ever go to any corporate profit coffers, but will instead be re-invested in the schools that so many companies are trying to rob

Let’s all agree on one thing, EDUCATION IS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR FUTURE, not a political and ideological football.