Democrat Dannel P. Malloy is really about privatizing your public schools.
That’s the absurd territory we have lurched into in the debate over how to fix the state’s urban schools where children don’t learn to read and high school kids don’t graduate.
And yet, increasingly, you hear that teachers and union leaders are worried that Malloy’s school reform plan means turning public schools into private profit centers, a proposition that would be impossible under state law.
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8 Responses to The Phony School Privatization Argument
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“Bugger Off! We want our Gold! Bugger the kids! You too Malloy!”
Yes. The AFT/CEA was heard!
Given the opportunity to create their own model schools nationwide the unions say “Bugger Off! We want our Gold!”
If the unions were taking this seriously they’d be pouring money into a proof of concept in Hartford and bragging
“Look at those results America! That’s our input right there! No more talk. No more studies. That’s a product of our expertise!
A model school for the nation! We will roll these model schools out nationwide like a franchise and bury all comers!”
Instead we get “Bugger Off! Give us our Gold! Bugger the kids! You too Malloy!”
All accompanied by the promise of the union voting block for those who will choose to bugger the kids and put
the union first and kids last!
Why don’t the unions put their money where their mouths are and flaunt their turnaround school and proof-of-concept academy?
Because the money is better spent stroking the egos of vain vote-seeking fools.
The union tactics are going to move CT toward a Wisconsin scenario. In Wisconsin an avowedly pro-union state became anti-collective bargaining.
How bad are things in Wisconsin? The unions poured $3 million in April into television support for their favored candidate to unseat Governor Walker in the recall election. The result: Kathleen Falk lost 16 points in the polls in 3 weeks and is now labeled a corrupt union toady who hates the taxpayers. She is unelectable.
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These unions are as tone deaf as our President. 1,000 union stewards show up at a rally? So what. That’s what they are paid for.
Far from being a phony argument, we only have to look to Bridgeport for the proof. The latest educational superman and his staff are costing about 1 million dollars a year in salary. Their big innovation – another round of standardized testing for all students in grades 3 – 11 in June and mandatory 3 hours a day of teaching to the test.
Rick, Malloy wants to ad over $1000 more per charter school student and $150 per Hartford public school student just based on the allocation of money. Charter schools pick their kids, but its the children of parents who are vested in their kids education. It leaves the neediest students in schools with other unmotivated kids whose parents do not have a vested interest in their education with less available money to help. Also, eliminating collective bargaining in the Commissioner’s Network gives teachers the impression as well. Every break in a damn starts with a leak. By the way, I and everyone else I know was not paid to be at the rally, and I know a lot of other teachers that regret the could not make it due to teaching or family responsibilities.
Now do I agree throwing extra money at schools will solve the problem? No, the problems Hartford and other inner cities in the state are faced have devolved into problems far greater than charter schools, teachers unions, or schools in general can face.
The solution lies in getting social services, the courts, schools, DCF, and community leaders all on the same page setting specific goals and clear benchmarks that should be reached.
This needs to be done as well with lowering taxes and cutting budgets in the cities to make them more business friendly. It can be done though.
Rick-Where is it the bill that a union can run their own charter school? Even if it was in the bill, the union, nor any private company, is equiped to run a school. This is yet again, more of “don’t look behind the curtain!!! I am the wizard!” Your lack of stats and evidence make your goals and masters very apparent. Please stop pretending and proudly wear your red ConnCan t-shirt.
Rick, please stop with the broad brush and the oversimplification of the argument. No one I know is claiming that there’s going to be some wholesale abandonment of public education. When I express concern about privitization, I’m expressing a concern that we are incorporating what are arguably nefarious elements of the private sector into public schools, such as the abandonment of collectively bargained rights for teachers or the adoption of a competitive model of schooling for students best (or worst) exemplified at the moment by the lottery system for school placement. Haven’t you been a first hand witness to what a corporate agenda has done to journalism? Please.
Wow, Rick. All this time I thought you were simply being a thick headed suck-up to the Governor’s lovely aid, Roy. Now I’m thinking you’re just not that smart. My heart goes out to all investigative journalists trying to get their work on the first few pages of the paper. I’m sure it’s quite frustrating when the air-head columnist forgoes all fact checking and simply declares things without any back-up data. Heck, your readers should feel insulted that you think they are that stupid.
As sincere as you are you don’t get the complaint against the “reform” because you don’t talk to teachers, other than those who stand at the steps of the Capitol. I give them credit because as a former English teacher I would have been hard pressed to find time out during the week from “directing” essays to do a protest (which is why we have unions. Given the choice I suspect that most taxpayers want me at home correcting their child’s papers.)
If you want a true picture of education your need to get away from the State Capitol and away from the HYFD BD office (where you meet self promoters such as Adamoski and the DC super “who SREAMSs too much!”)… talk to teachers as to what the problems are and what is to be done.
More impotantlanly, you could genuinely advocate for inner city youth if you constantly pushed for breaking the barriers that deny entry of the poor into suburbs: i.e. low income accessible rentals. Since you seem Vermont stubborn I repeat: push for breaking the economic barriers that prevent the poor from experiencing the “good life” of the suburbs. (Poor minority parents should have the opportuniy of explaining to their children as to why they cain’t have this years’ Apple updated phone.)
In short your language is reactionary, much as the French General who order the artillary directed at his own troups after failure to advance. Teachers are in the trenches, everday. Get closer. But get deloused before going, You need not be controled by your wife’s demented cousin (Richard of the mouth). To repeat what your spouse tells you everyday, “Get a spine. Tell The Courant what they can do with their morality. Oh, your daughters college bill just arrived.”
Life’s a bitch and meaningless, but we can level the field on how we all get scwered.