Apropos of the previous post, our friend at School Matters, Steve Hinnefeld, offers some thoughts on the Catholic School domination in Indiana’s voucher program in his latest, “Indiana’ expansive – and expensive – first-year voucher program.”…
Date Archives November 2011
Putting the Pieces Together
Here are some pieces in the form of “popular” propositions made by our Masters for you to absorb and parrot: The U.S Among the modifiable factors include: cialis no prescriptiion maintain a penile erection sufficient…
Project Lead the Way–Engineering Children for Corporate Military Fodder
[In the following Doug Martin once again connects the dots for us. “Right-wing” now seems to mean only “Mammon-Worship” and I’m certain that we need no political affiliation any longer to describe this disease. The…
Taking Down Geographic Boundaries–Don’t Be True to Your School!
State Impact Indiana posted a 3-question interview with Tony Bennett, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, in which Bennett makes a statement that seems to me of massive importance and one that has yet to really…
The Unambiguous Ethic of Power
The “framing text” is a section from Simone de Beauvior’s 1947 book The Ethics of Ambiguity, “The Antinomies of Action”. Indented, intrusive text is Errant and clearly labeled. *** As we have seen, if the…
Some “Instructors” Are Indeed Overpaid: Jay’s Endowed Aggression
So, the representative of the worst among us (academic class), Jay P. Greene, has a “friend” post on an Heritage Institute report that public school teachers are overpaid which is titled “Are Public School Teachers Underpaid?” …
The Railroad Rides Upon Us: On the Pursuit of Uneventfulness
We embody a type of greatness. We are of capacity. We are of potential. And yet we are nearly entirely imbecilic in body and mind. Of what, on what, in what do we spend our…
“Stick ’em Up!” US and IMF Policies Explained
I just started reading David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The First 5000 Years and I’d like to keep you apprised as I go. I heard Graeber via a podcast and then saw an interview with…
Accumulation by Dispossession: Land Theft Masquerading as “Empowering Parents”
Just read these two pieces and see if you need much more to understand the reality of what “loosing” the beast upon the prey that is your public schools, and by very near and dear…
“Imagine” Trouble: Charter School Operator Places Top Admin on Leave
From today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch (h/t Tammy) comes news of (more) trouble in the “Imagine(d)” paradise. In their report, Imagine Schools places top executive on leave, the paper notes Findings about Imagine’s St Oral medication…