I think a gesture toward PS teachers and their unions would go a long way right about now.

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. I suspect it sank because ...

1) This:

The president and his Sec of Ed ( elite private school products w. kiddies tucked away in ... you got it... elite private schools)

Where should the children of the POTUS (and even those of a cabinet member) go?

2) Or maybe this:

have, for the last four years, been looking down their noses at inner-city urban PS schools; and at the folks who've made a career out of working with these PS kids.

Suffice it to say ...No, they haven't.

3) Or, maybe this:

none of whom either Obama or Duncan would ever, under ANY circumstances, go *near*.

No comment necessary.

4) But most likely:

3. I will not, (I *CANNOT*), move if you persist in promoting the GATES/RHEE/KOCH/BLOOMBERG multi-billionaire agenda for de-unionizing, amateurizing and trivializing my profession.

Do you expect it to get any better under a romney administration?

Just saying ...