Waiting for Superman

[sulphurdunn]

While the education film "Waiting For Superman" has moving profiles of students struggling to succeed under difficult circumstances, it puts forward a sometimes misleading and other times dishonest account of the roots of the problem and possible solutions.

The amped-up rhetoric of crisis and failure everywhere is being used to promote business-model reforms that are destabilizing even in successful schools and districts. A panel at NBC’s Education Nation Summit, taking place in New York today and tomorrow, was originally titled "Does Education Need a Katrina?" Such disgraceful rhetoric undermines reasonable debate.

Let’s examine these issues, one by one:

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/27-10

Educational reform is being brought to us by the same folks who sell us war, poverty, political and financial corruption, global warming and the rest of the vulture capitalist menu. They know that 1/3 of the people will always bleat like sheep when they hear the bell of authoritative propaganda and money because they have been raised to worship wealth and power. The moneyed class figure they can use a combination of deception, bribery and intimidation to buy off, sucker or discredit the rest.

[sulphurdunn]

1. Testing 123

[immoderate]

2. One of the best reviews I've seen.

Thanks.

--imm

[yurbud]

3. I'm beginning to wonder if this scam will flop like privatizing social security

the public didn't buy vouchers for private schools, and this is just a more convoluted variation on the theme.

[Blue_Tires]

4. kick