Reply #152: On what basis do I charge you with "self-interest?"

[msanthrope]

Hannah, one need only to read your vociferous, repeated anti-Obama, anti-Duncan posts defending public school systems to understand that you have a self-interest.

Is it monetary? No. It's deeper, and more personal. It's about pride--you seem to pride yourself on being knowledgeable, and on being a crusader against the "corporatist" approach you see the Department of Education taking.

That's all fine, well, and good, but I suggest that here, you've chosen the wrong side, and instead of backing down, you seem all the more invested in defending your judgment. That is what I mean about self-interest---you cannot accept that you might be wrong--and that every single bit of evidence in the public domain increasingly suggests that you are.

If you are wrong about Lower Merion, it does call your other defenses and judgments into question, does it not?

For me, it certainly has. I do not think it is merely coincidental that you, and others, who have loudly defended this school district have also been the same posters who have repeatedly and loudly posted anti-Obama threads regarding Department of Education reforms.

Your defense of LMSD hasn't helped your larger cause, IMHO. But I do understand your personal investment.