Neighbors,
While the school reform debate is dominated by a pack of lies, a
Philadelphia high school dropout has done excellent work to shed light
on the real situation. With all the millions of propaganda dollars to
support privatization and destruction of public education, the so called
experts conveniently forgot to explore the reports of teens themselves.
How conveniently idiotic is that?
The distribution of reasons for dropout being reported shows how
ridiculous is the pack of lies masquerading as a school reform debate.
Gifted students are failed by the system. Poor students are failed by
the system. Average students are failed by the system. And blaming
teachers and parents is a rotten smokescreen when society's priorities
have comprehensively sabotaged public education.
Wealthy districts spend twice as much money per pupil while not having
to deal with the enormous burdens that poverty transfers to children and
teens. A class size of 33 without ancillary services and programs is a
funding problem and fits perfectly with the distribution reported by
these gifted dropouts.
Wake up Philadelphia and start looking into the lies and priorities.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20110221_DN_Editorial__Students_speak_out_on_crisis.html?c=0.8491900398665023&posted=y&viewAll=y#comments
Power to the people from Madison to Bahrain,
Glenn
PS: Power to the students and flash mobs
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