Posted on 05/05/2010 9:57:49 AM PDT by decimon
Bob Bowdon knew that tackling the damaged New Jersey public school system in documentary format would give him plenty of raw material.
He just didn’t know precisely how much material he’d have from which to choose.
“It became kind of like a drug, you’re finding more and more and more of it,” says Bowdon, the mind behind The Cartel, an excoriation of the teachers’ unions ruling New Jersey’s students. “Who at the outset imagines you’d be finding janitors making six figures, or a superintendent making $470,00 one year, the same year he was fired?”
Or, for that matter, a veteran teacher who can barely read?
In The Cartel, out in select theaters now, Bowdon outlines in painstaking detail why the New Jersey school system is a disaster. No other state spends as much per pupil as the Garden State, and what do they have to show for it?
Low test scores. Rampant corruption. Tenure policies that make it all but impossible to fire incompetent teachers. Millions of wasted dollars.
The Cartel connects the dots, Bowdon says, proving that each of the isolated outrages is part of a much more sinister situation fueled by the intractable teachers’ unions.
The situation in New Jersey is a teachable moment for districts across the country, the film argues. And programs like charter and magnet schools offer the kind of school competition that might just yield higher test scores and smarter students.
Bowdon, a former television news reporter, knew The Cartel wouldn’t be an exotic documentary on the surface. He doesn’t have dazzling visuals to share like an environmental film might, nor does he rely on the Michael Moore brand of infotainment.
So he decided to overload his film with talking heads — from both sides of the ideological aisle.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Unions = Rampant corruption
I wonder what Chris Christie is going to do about schools.
Dumbing down our children ruining their minds has been a license to steal for decades.
The intended purpose of liberalism.
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No more than he can do. This movie may help. According to their website, the movie is doing well.
http://www.thecartelmovie.com/
Chris Cristie asked the Voters just a couple of weeks ago to Vote against the Runaway School Budgets and they did in record Numbers! The School Systems in New Jersey are open Cess Pools of Waste and Corruption with Dispicable Union Rules and Bloated School Administrations that care NOT about the Students nor their Educations! Corzine was a Cancer in New Jersey and Cristie cut the Cancer offf at the roots! but he has a long waay to go in the Garden State of decay and Corruption!
Now he needs to do a similar movie about the California Teachers Asso.
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