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Ohanian Comment: I love this directness and plan to use it: You don't like what I say on my site? Get your own site. I share PREA prez's attitude about posting what I feel like posting. Even if you don't care about Williamson Evers, you should enjoy PREA prez's instructions about what happens when you send an e-mail: When you send an e-mail, put something on the internet, you can’t get do-overs. No take-backs.
And listen up about Williamson Evers; he's a dangerous bully, infamous for putting a toilet on the back of a pickup and making a public show of flushing California's math standards (based on the highly respected NCTM standards) down the toilet. Of late, the Bush team picked him to go transform education in Iraq.
Clarification: CATO is Libertarian rather than right wing, which is why they oppose Evers, who is himself Libertarian on some things but definitely not on education.
by PREA prez blog
This morning I got a message in my comment box from Dan Kleinman. Dan’s the guy who thinks the American Library Association is a a front group for The Homosexual Agenda and wants the book, Fat Kid Rules the World banned from school reading lists. Dan lives in New Jersey. He wants the book banned in Alsip, Illinois. Go figure.
Dan’s message attacks the ALA, and has (really) an extended description of oral sex. I wouldn’t print it. This is not a social network site. It’s a blog that represents my views. I print the comments I find interesting or that push the conversation along. I don’t print stuff I find offensive, or discussions that have gone on too long, and I make up my rules as I go along. One new one (because it never occurred to me before) is that I don’t print Dan’s descriptions of oral sex. My blog.
Blogs are free. Want to say something? Get your own blog.
On the other hand there are people who write on the internet and then are shocked to discover that their writing has ended up on someone’s blog. Where have they been? You write an e-mail or you send a message to a blogger and you think it is just between the two of you?
This brings us to Neal McCluskey.
My brother Mike did a series of postings on his Small Talk site about Williamson Evers. Evers is the neo-conservative and former aide to Iraq’s post invasion US chief, Paul Bremer. Evers is Bush’s choice to work in the Department of Education.
Neal McCluskey works for the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank. Amazingly, Evers is too much for even the Cato thinkers. McCluskey wrote Mike and tried to distance himself from Evers. When Mike posted McCluskey’s letter, McCluskey got nervous and asked Mike to take it down.
What world do these people live in? When you send an e-mail, put something on the internet, you can’t get do-overs. No take-backs. Now, if you had made clear from the beginning that it was a private conversation. But even then, guys, it’s the internet!
Mike, being the kind of guy he is, and for reasons he addressed, took McCluskey’s letter off his blog.
You can find the letter below. I got it off the internet. If you have a blog and wish to post it, feel free.
Neal McCluskey wrote:
Dear Dr. Klonsky,
I just read the Stanford Daily’s article about Williamson Evers’ challenges getting confirmed by the Senate, and saw that you thought Evers’ appointment was intended to gratify the Cato Institute. I can understand why you think that given Mr. Evers’s past association with the Institute, but at this point, at least when it comes to education policy, we are on very different sides. Mr. Evers is a vociferous advocate for state standards and No Child Left Behind, and we are very much against those things. I point this out only because people have a habit of lumping Cato together with neo-conservatives and we have very, very different viewpoints on education. This difference is perhaps no more striking than when it comes to heavy-handed education standards policies, and I am trying - even if it has to be one person at a time - to make our differences known.
With best regards,
Neal
Neal P. McCluskey
Policy Analyst, Center for Educational Freedom
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
About this blog.
I have been an art teacher in Park Ridge, Illinois for over 24 years. I am president of the Park Ridge Education Association, affiliated with the National Education Association. The posts on this blog represent my views and are chosen by me.
They do not necessarily represent the views of the NEA, the IEA or the PREA. But sometimes they do.
I write and post about issues concerning teaching, schools, unions, politics, culture, social justice issues and anything else I feel like.
— PREA prez
PREA prez blog
2007-10-01
http://preaprez.wordpress.com/
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