Because I linked to Walmart scholar JayZee Greene’s blog their blog program picks it up and sticks it into the particular post’s comments thread. Toady #2, as I characterized him in the post, Greg Forster,…
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Occupy School Reform: Against Stealing Our Public Schools
I don’t know how to tell you this; we’re getting our asses handed to us on a platter. By we, I mean those of us who are against the corporate school reform movement. My friend…
The Shackles of Citizenry: Guilty In Any Land
Quaint, quaint, quaint…the good old days. Imagine a time when being an American citizen was justifiably a dream of humans from all over the world. This was the great experiment in democracy and finally, eventually,…
An Idle Curriculum as Salvific
Update (in the body of the text) “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?” Vonnegut’s fictional holy man Bokonon asks in the “14th Book…
Framing for Power: Becoming What We Oppose
Okay, I’ve been trying to suss out Lakoff and frames and metaphors of tribal response and so on. Today, after the dogs and I parted ways with the kids (they to school, us to find…
More than Markets: “We are Workingmen!”
(Update in the text: Big Food in Schools) I will always admit to an inability to connect point A to point X, Y or Z through the clear delineation of points B through W. I…
The Actions of the Criminal Classes: The Mask of Freedom
“The plague has freed them from the blind impulse to fall under the influence of contemporary laws. The knights, the merchants, the warriors and women, who demand–they each demand a new life.”–Viktor Shklovsky How about…
Facebook Ban Doomed a la Footloose! But That’s Not the Real Lesson…
The Amy Hestir Student Protection Act in Missouri is set to go into effect on August 28th. The law’s primary purpose is to protect children against sexual predators. Here is the section that has come…
An Illegitimate Public Discourse – Or, Liars Everywhere
Bear with me on this…it’s a simple point and one I’ll keep making as The Errant keeps “heralding the unwritten”: Where will we find truth regarding our world–the world that is factual and verifiable? Politics…
What’s In a Name? School District as Corporation
“It rocks the core of education and what we’ve been accustomed to. From the changes in collective bargaining to teacher/principal evaluations, merit pay and changes in the immigration laws, it’s just been one thing after…