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Message to D. C. Teachers: Hold On

by Paul A. Moore

D.C. students, their parents, teachers and
public school workers need only hold on. When
you have Alan Greenspan disowning Milton
Friedman and Ayn Rand in Congressional
testimony it is a sign great change is on the
way. One of those changes will be the end of
the tyranny of Bill Gates' and Eli Broad's
attack dog Michelle Rhee.

Lacking any discernible qualifications, her
shocking appointment, can be understood only
when you realize that Rhee was brought in to
inflict maximum damage on the district's public
schools. And as a cultist (Teach For America,
New Teacher Project) and true believer she came
at a bargain basement salary. Real
superintendents were courted (Fenty visited
Miami with several members of the D.C.
commission to interview Dr. Rudolph Crew) but
those candidates could not be counted on to
mindlessly take a club to D.C.'s public
schools. The havoc and disruption that Rhee has
caused was no accident. It was the plan!

But Michelle Rhee appeared in your lives
because and when the "global economy" was
riding herd on this planet. Globalization was
at the very foundation of business model for
schools, charters, vouchers, data driven
instruction, merit pay, standardized testing,
and most perversely of all, paying students to
consume their version of education. It was the
reason the Business Roundtable and Bill Gates
were interested in public education at all. The
CEO's wanted a profit making private school
system and Gates wanted visas for Indian and
Taiwanese tech workers he could pay lower wages
to.

An economic earthquake has now cracked the
foundation of the model that spits up a
Michelle Rhee. The superstructure will collapse
in time. The global economy is history.

Soon it will be every private school and
charter school investor for himself. Private
school students are being moved to the public
schools by their debt ridden parents in
significant numbers already. In the scramble to
survive, the privatizers will throw their tool
Ms. Rhee to the wolves. Stripped of her
powerful patrons, Michelle Rhee will stand
alone as a petty, vindictive, insecure
bureaucrat who had no business pretending to
care about children. And she will leave. Hold
on!




— Paul A. Moore

2008-10-25


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