Education featured on Sunday's This Week (8/29)

[Catshrink]

EXCLUSIVE: Crisis in the Classroom and in the Lunchroom
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers; and Bringing a Food Revolution to America's Schools with Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver


http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/coming-upexclusive-crisis-classroom-lunchroom/story?id=11482071

Gag me.

Big bad teachers unions......blah blah blah.....teachers' unions are evil.....blah blah blah...... teachers are accountable but no one else is ................. blah blah blah

[madfloridian]

1. They have the power to sway and control the media.

Arne will say he loves teachers after all, etc. etc.

Randi will pretend to be shocked at developments that she as a professor at Broad Academy worked to get in place.

And Rhee will be Rhee.

[Dinger]

7. Why Is The NEA Left Out?

I want my union represented too.

[femmocrat]

10. Great question. n/t

[Reader Rabbit]

2. Makes me glad I don't watch TV.

I get to miss Arne give us teachers the benefit of his years of experience in the classr—...wait a minute, he doesn't have any experience!

[MichiganVote]

3. Sure and Obama will lick the boots of Arne any day of the week.

[soleiri]

4. Thanks

I just warned my family that they shouldn't be alarmed if they hear screaming, cursing and the sound of objects being thrown around coming from my room tomorrow morning.

[alp227]

5. Most of their talking points have been debunked by DU already I suppose.

So tomorrow I'll DVR Face the Nation (devoted to the 2010 Congressional elections) and the overnight rerun of Meet the Press (devoted to 5 years anniversary of Hurricane Katrina).

[Dinger]

6. Where The Hell Is Dennis Van Roekel?

He seems to be missing.

[Dinger]

8. Kick

And arne duncan and the rest of his ilk can kiss my ass.

[Starry Messenger]

9. Ugh.

I knew Jamie Oliver was going to get involved in this all this "reform" hoo-haw somehow after I read about his show. How long until he comes up with a Revolutionary© food brand of his own to sell to charter schools? There's a company in Berkeley that does this. Claims to be green and nutritious but is very expensive and just uses the same companies that the "bad" public schools do. School "reform" is the biggest and most shameful scan I've seen perpetrated on the public in years. And the whole thing is just loaded with overpaid airheads. It's driving me nuts.