tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post3755383474078484597..comments2024-01-15T15:23:15.700-05:00Comments on B-LoEdScene: Birds of a Feather Trying to Get Rich Quick TogetherAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-5689400416916687532013-02-10T19:14:06.035-05:002013-02-10T19:14:06.035-05:00Hare,
Thanks for the many sites...I'll be ther...Hare,<br />Thanks for the many sites...I'll be there tonite.<br />Gone all day to Knox farm mansion with 10,000 other folks...long day.Peg :)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-89171929845082485262013-02-10T14:51:10.367-05:002013-02-10T14:51:10.367-05:00Peg,
Here is another fine example of the privatize...Peg,<br />Here is another fine example of the privatizers ripping off the taxpayers for profit. I am just recently finding out about the "opportunity scholarships", reformspeak for vouchers. Here is what Diane Ravitch recently had to say:<br />http://dianeravitch.net/2013/01/11/vouchers-do-not-reduce-educational-inequity/<br /><br />"Vouchers were once thought to be a dead issue in US education. Voters have turned them down again and again. The public dislikes them so much that even Republicans are afraid to use the V word. Instead, voucher programs–always enacted by legislation, not by voter referendum–are always called, euphemistically, “opportunity scholarships.”" <br /><br />Now look at the most recent nonsense from Hannya Boulos of Buffaloreformed. She "proposes the provision of publicly funded school choice scholarships to students in failing schools."<br /><br />http://www.buffaloreformed.com/index.php?src=blog&srctype=detail&blogid=84<br /><br />Here is another doofus in the Buffalo News calling vouchers "Freedom accounts"!<br />http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130116/OPINION/130119402/1117<br /><br />Vouchers are now given all manner of crazy monikers. Just google opportunity scholarship for a start.<br /><br />It is ALL simply an attempt to take money away from public schools. Give the money to privatizers and/or religious schools.<br /><br />Sad. <br />Pineapple Harenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-48885824701410242752013-02-09T17:31:40.973-05:002013-02-09T17:31:40.973-05:00Sorry for the typos...typing is not one of my most...Sorry for the typos...typing is not one of my most admirable accomplishments. My editing also sucks. Peg ...the sort of humble one :)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-48976935279528887042013-02-09T17:22:49.596-05:002013-02-09T17:22:49.596-05:00Off the subject;
Did the Chameleons and other cha...Off the subject;<br /><br />Did the Chameleons and other chaters put themselves in the group og private and parochial schools last week when the "Train or Bus" rolled into town to celebrate "Choice" week?<br /><br />Does that mean that they KNOW that they are "private" schools ...using public money).<br /><br />Over the whole country they "choo choo" in with their 14 destinations. Are we cursed to have nine of their stops in New York,or was it five here and nine for the other 49 states?<br /><br />Their picture was right there with the real private schools that are not scamming the taxpayers.<br /><br />Just wonderin' Peg...the perplexed one :|noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-6768331459853977192013-02-08T16:23:11.188-05:002013-02-08T16:23:11.188-05:00I followed the link you provided and what an eye o...I followed the link you provided and what an eye opener! If you replace "prisons" and "prisoners", and the names of the corporate privatizers, you could say pretty much the same thing about the frontal attack on public education. <br />The hype, the lobbyists, the politicians, are all the same!<br />Even their advertising, their source of financing, the greed, the lies, ..all similar.<br /><br />When the government owns all the "corporations:, and the serfs..er ..workers, all eke out a basic livelihood, it is called Communism. <br />What will we call it when the corporations own all of the government<br /> and the "workers"..er..serfs work two jobs for minimum wages ( no unions to contract for benefits).<br /><br />I am thinking of "oligarchy", "plutocracy", "dictatorship", and synonyms for those options, and what comes to mind is "friggin' gawd awful mess!"<br /><br />Since there is no well funded lobby advocating for Public School Education, I guess we are "up that creek", unless we get more "grass rootsy" in every state, as they are doing in Vermont and Seattle.<br /><br />The Charters come in to the inner cities, skim off 5% of the kids for their schools, leave 95% of the kids to fend for themselves, make already underfunded public schools pay for each child they register, and that is a good thing?...<br />For whom? Not the 95% and the communities they live in. So then...for whom?<br /><br />You "nailed it" again, Sean!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Peg :(noreply@blogger.com