tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post1004974533978507609..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Ask Arne: Teacher DiversityPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-73793681170738027602014-10-06T01:25:57.486-04:002014-10-06T01:25:57.486-04:00Found it!
Here's George Schmidt's article...Found it!<br /><br />Here's George Schmidt's article on racist elimination of black teachers in Chicago Public Schools:<br /><br />http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=5244&section=Article<br /><br />Here's the title & topnote:<br /><br />"VALLAS WATCH, PART TWO: How the racist attack on African American teachers and principals was orchestrated and field tested in Chicago by Paul Vallas, Richard M.Daley, and a cast of hundreds -- launched behind a smokescreen of screaming about 'standards and accountability' "Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-1733450346403942462014-10-06T01:12:42.315-04:002014-10-06T01:12:42.315-04:00As Chicago's George Schmidt (Substance News) w...As Chicago's George Schmidt (Substance News) will tell you in detail and with extensive documentation, Arne's privatization and charterization of Chicago---started by Duncan's mentor/predecessor Paul Vallas and continued under his various successors---has decimated the numbers of African-American teachers in Chicago's public and charter schools... dropping from 70 percent to 25 percent. For this douche to express concern over a lack of African-Americans teaching---and as role models in schools---is nauseating when you consider he deliberately cleansed Chicago's public schools of those same African-American teachers. <br /><br />Edushyster wrote a sarcastic article about corporate reform darling Teach for America's latest attempt to bring in more minorities. She snarkily interptets their current practice: "Recruiting more minority teachers is essential—after we drive out all of those who are already teaching… "<br /><br />You can read this article---"The White Fit"---at:<br /><br />http://edushyster.com/?p=5638Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-42397636949638234032014-10-04T00:14:31.427-04:002014-10-04T00:14:31.427-04:00Bad enough that Arne is inarticulate with his own ...Bad enough that Arne is inarticulate with his own words (he can't make verbs agree with their antecedents), but then he has to go and mouth a host of reformy phrases: "the grit, the tenacity,the resilience, the perseverance..."so that "kids will be successful not only in school, but in life..." Uggghhh!laMissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516322307725011313noreply@blogger.com