tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post8447383180150914408..comments2024-03-22T02:15:56.280-07:00Comments on Jersey Jazzman: (Some) Reformsters Normalize Trump: Part IDukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16535645107179796099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-34329946669385608592016-11-20T08:31:47.216-08:002016-11-20T08:31:47.216-08:00Thanks for a great piece. I had exactly the same r...Thanks for a great piece. I had exactly the same reaction, reading the McNews: "opportunistic" is far too polite. Sheep's clothing and all that.<br /><br />My thinking in the last couple of days (after reading this piece) has been: just how far will Trump's education policy advisors, Secretary and under-minions get to go before organized resistance brings back common sense? (I know that none of these are *his* ideas--this is all about jumping on a reform bandwagon while the jumping's good.) <br /><br />If we're supposed to be telling justifiably frightened children to buck up, how do we compare to German educators in the 1930s? Were they carrying water for The Party, reassuring their students that the school would be better off if *those* kids went to a school in a camp, one that could serve their special needs better? How long does it take to undo a generation of outright teacher-approved bullshit-spreading?<br /><br />So here's my take:<br /><br />http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2016/11/german_schools_teach_human_dignity_and_political_history.html<br />Nancy Flanaganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00047575960944913289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-68222216153206449112016-11-19T12:32:03.169-08:002016-11-19T12:32:03.169-08:00"Children in charter schools who understood t..."Children in charter schools who understood that a Clinton win would be bad news for their school and might lead to its closure." But virtually no such qualms about public school closures, loss of funding to charters, the children who are kicked out of the charters, and on and on. Julie Borsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15205661029847875010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9025948832913694345.post-75927983833687836862016-11-19T10:44:02.741-08:002016-11-19T10:44:02.741-08:00Excellent and spot on. This should be an op ed in ...Excellent and spot on. This should be an op ed in our major NJ newspapers. Trump will stack the SCOTUS with far right wing loons who will be sure to render decisions against the public schools and unions. Things that will be on the GOP chopping block: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, food stamps, bank regulations, environmental regulations, gay rights, abortion rights, science, evolution science, etc. <br />The working class folks who voted for Trump will live to regret their choice.Giuseppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03418801372998968620noreply@blogger.com