tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post8660375493706502898..comments2024-03-28T19:47:39.985-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: John Oliver on Charter SchoolsPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-19508035303735172592016-08-25T09:46:36.502-04:002016-08-25T09:46:36.502-04:00Peter it's interesting to see how corporate re...Peter it's interesting to see how corporate reformers react to Oliver's piece:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/richardwhitmir/status/768564610773487616<br />--------------<br />Richard Whitmire<br />@richardwhitmir<br /><br />Finally saw J Oliver. Puzzled. If I strung together the six worst tradit pub schools and called that the norm, would that be good reporting?<br /><br /> Retweets<br /> 15<br /> <br />StandforChildren : "It's infotainment. Not news reporting.<br /> <br />Richard Whitmire: "Yes, but charter critics took seriously. Imagine their reaction if the same reporting were applied to tradit schools."<br />----------------------------<br /><br />Actually Richard, that is exactly what corporate reformers do when reporting on public schools and unionized public school teachers. <br /><br />Remember Campbell Brown's lie about NAEP scores show that 3/4 of traditional public school children are "below grade level." Whitmire and Peter Cunningham lept to Brown's defense, when she was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG... about that? <br /><br />Remember Rhee stating that the teachers she fired were abusing children ... and that turned out to be a lie (in Fast Company Magazine ... Google it)?<br /><br />Secondly, it's not just these examples in Oliver's piece that should be the focus, but the system of ZERO oversight or ALMOST-ZERO oversight that enables them to happen, and the fact that whenever well-meaning people want to impose oversight at either the state or school board level --- oversight that would have prevented these outrages IN THE FIRST PLACE and would do so in the future --- the charter industry or corporate ed. reform industry throws millions of dollars, and tons of lobbyists to prevent such oversight, all so they can "have the freeedom to innovate"... (i.e. a license to steal.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.com