tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post7316466152563156590..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Jeanne Allen on LAUSD: Fire Them AllPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-65132347503041757702019-01-17T22:29:52.126-05:002019-01-17T22:29:52.126-05:00Peter,
I just dug up this gem from Jeanne Allen o...Peter,<br /><br />I just dug up this gem from Jeanne Allen on a panel discussion on-line show. Jeanne claims that the rank 'n file teachers no longer want to belong to unions, or have union leadership represent them. Any teachers who act or say otherwise have been "kow-towed into" acting and thinking so by union thugs.<br /><br />So, in Jeanne's alternate non-union utopia, teachers would be paid and treated well ... if only all unions dissolved. <br /><br />This should come as news to teachers who've actually been in unions ... or even to teachers who are not unionized, but who desperately wish they were, and are trying to organize into unions:<br /><br />(30:36 - )<br />https://vimeo.com/237651856<br />(30:36 - )<br /><br />JEANNE ALLEN: <br /><br />"(Teachers) have been kow-towed in to believing that unless there's a union that supports them, that they're going to be treated unfairly, but the rank 'n file don't really believe that anymore."<br /><br />What???!!!<br /><br />Jeanne (pronounced /GEE-nee/), can you point to a time in history of a certain industry where the absence of unions, or the elimination of unions has led to better treatment of workers?<br /><br />Why don't you tell these teachers at Success Academy --- the<br />premiere charter school upon which you heap so much praise---<br />that are quoted BELOW that they're better off without a union?<br /><br />http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2014/08/citizen-jacks-compendium-of-teacher.html<br /><br />Watch the rest of the video:<br /><br />https://vimeo.com/237651856<br /><br />I don't have time to transcribe all this tripe, but earlier in the video, Jeanne openly states that her goal is to put public schools out of business through competition. If charters luring kids away leads to a financial crisis because districts still have fixed operations costs, Jeanne says that's too bad. Find away to "fix it" or disappear from the Earth, Allen insists.<br /><br />(NOTE: to "fix it", of course, district officials have to fire teachers or cut the salaries of teachers, then jack the class size sky-high, then cut, cut, cut ... so that parents will no longer view traditional public schools as worthwhile. <br /><br />Whose job is it to fight against this happening? .. hmmm ... Maybe it's the job of those unions that Jeamme claims that "rank'n file teachers no longer believe in"?)<br /><br />Here she is gloating about how privatization through charter proliferation has wiped out public schools in many cities.<br /><br />(23:42 - )<br />https://vimeo.com/237651856<br />(23:42 - )<br /><br />JEANNE ALLEN:<br /><br />"Fix it, or go out of business. <br /><br />"They (public schools) have gone out of business in Detroit.<br /><br />"They (public schools) have gone out of business in Philadelphia.<br /><br />"They (public schools) have gone out of business in D.C.<br /><br />"Schools that fail go out of business when people choose to<br />leave, and that's the way it should be."<br /><br />Later on, she floats this one: <br /><br />JEANNE ALLEN:<br /><br />"All the economists agree that quality education is only happening where students are in choice schools." (not an exact quote ... but a paraphrased condensation of a long rambling comment of GEE-nee's)<br /><br />Really, which economists are those?<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-47040145783933797572019-01-17T17:04:49.439-05:002019-01-17T17:04:49.439-05:00Watch this home-made video of yesterday's stri...Watch this home-made video of yesterday's strike:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=NEJ3QZYohU4<br /><br />As you watch this, keep in mind that these are the folks Jeanne wants to fire. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-3190444792397353402019-01-16T15:47:02.009-05:002019-01-16T15:47:02.009-05:00Extremist Jeanne Allen is one of the few individua...Extremist Jeanne Allen is one of the few individuals even more reactionary than Arne Duncan and Betsy Devos. http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2017/10/jeanne-allen-reactionary-right-wing.htmlRobert D. Skeels * rdsathenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07920561332154131328noreply@blogger.com