tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4420106493084207435.post6062172268275537551..comments2023-06-05T13:35:14.888-07:00Comments on Schooling in the Ownership Society: Charter hustlers launch ad campaign attack on de BlasioMike Klonskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02017021676773731024noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4420106493084207435.post-20380680179619540002014-02-28T19:54:04.322-08:002014-02-28T19:54:04.322-08:00Bill Gates, work to improve your own pathetic prod...Bill Gates, work to improve your own pathetic product and get the hell out of education… <br /><br />Much of the problem in today’s American education is the unabashed arrogance and negative influence of the business types who think that they know everything, including how to run our public schools. It's appropriate to cite the fact that 95% of American businesses go out of business within the first five years of their existence. An abysmal track record like that should never qualify the business types as “experts” in anything, especially in how to educate our children. Yet, their influence in education is unmistakable: Common Core Standards, the ubiquitous standardized testing regimen, the whole concept of punishing schools and teachers in poverty-stricken areas of rural and urban America, "No Child Left Behind", "Race to the Top" with their "free market," "tough love" approach for funding, and the charter school (corporate) movement were all ideas from the business world which resulted in the stultification. dulling, and devastation of our schools. Attila, the Hun couldn't have visited more chaos and destruction on our children than these business types who claim to know everything. KarlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com