Police State Public Education in America (tags)
police state
Donald Trump on the Issues (tags)
Trump
Destroying Public Education in Chicago (tags)
education
Institutionalized Inequality in America (tags)
class war
Education and Democracy (tags)
education
Chicago Teachers v. Rahm Emanuel (tags)
education
ignorance
US Higher Education in Crisis (tags)
class war
Destroying Public Education in America (tags)
Privatizations schemes to destroy public education.
The last of the Halloween candy has been eaten. The harvest moon is a radiant memory. The family festival of Thanksgiving has drawn us closer together. All of these warm seasonal memories can mean only one thing: It’s time for the Christmas haters to shift into high gear.
Good reasons to DROP OUT OF SCHOOL and DROP OUT OF COLLEGE (tags)
John Taylor Gatto climaxed his 33 year teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City Teacher of the Year on three occasions. He quit teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that he was no longer willing to hurt children. His books include: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992); The Exhausted School (1993); A Different Kind of Teacher (2000); and The Underground History Of American Education (2001) The following was culled from his most recent work.