tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post3711279403908917713..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Parents Defending Education: Astroturf Goes Hard RightPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-30413725738062975672021-04-03T15:35:14.250-04:002021-04-03T15:35:14.250-04:00As I pointed out in a comment on Dr. Schneider'...As I pointed out in a comment on Dr. Schneider's post, this is happening all over in many forms, almost like it's a coordinated effort (which we can all read as "exactly like it's a coordinated effort because it is".) Here in NC it's the Carolina Teachers Alliance and their above-board partner, our fanatically rightwing Lt. Governor Mark Robinson. He has talked about the formation of a task force to look for, you guessed it, indoctrination in classrooms, with the same kind of "turn in your teachers" call accompanying it. Amy Marshall, who heads the CTA, is also all about resisting any form of social justice education and claims to have resigned from her Wake Co. teaching job because she refused to attend a PD on white privilege. The CTA's website is full of the flag-waving "patriotism" that you would expect from these (not-so) closet white supremacists. It's also, while putting on the front of supporting public schools, blatantly pro-charter and pro-voucher. I think we can expect more state-level astroturfing efforts like this, as well as the national schemes like the PDE. It's the next way in which the privatizers will try to undermine and destroy public education for their own fun and profit.Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761331985610883481noreply@blogger.com