How the Unions Killed a Dream

Time Magazine ^ | 10/26/03 | Joe Klein

[cordeiro]

Seems that the DFT is more interested in maintaining a death grip on a crumbling school system than doing anything positive for the kids.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"People here are sensitive about white people bossing them around."

Unless their last name is Kennedy or Clinton.

[wizardoz]

Wow. This IS a story that needs to be told.

[CanisRex]

example number 1,234,567 of why my kids will never see the soft, fluorescent light of a public school classroom. Good find, thanks for posting.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

bump

[Fierce Allegiance]

Par for the course. For teachers unions, it has nothing to do with quality education. Or, the student, for that matter.

[FourPeas]

industrial-age assembly-line education model

Far be it for me to agree with a 'New Democrat' who's friends with Klinton, but he's right here.

Truly, the news of Jennie Grandstand's part in this needs to be known and told, along with the union's part and motivation.

[Pest]

bump

[Drango]

Give 'em a break...the unions were doing it for the children.

[IncPen]

ping

[Mark Felton]

correct title:

"Kids Forcibly Kept in Plantation Schools"

[drlevy88]

What is this 'critical mass' garbage anyhow? Homeschoolers do fine with a 'critical mass' of one student. Surely the pubschoolers, if they think they can equal this, have no complaint?

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Exactly. Homeschooling bump.

[Balding_Eagle]

The mayor withdrew his support, and Thompson withdrew his offer soon after.

I hope our Governor Owens (Colorado) makes a trip to Detroit to visit Bob Thompson and invites him here to Colorado.

Owens could, and would, help pave the way (no pun intended) for Thompson to do something like that here.

[dsc]

"What is this 'critical mass' garbage anyhow? Homeschoolers do fine with a 'critical mass' of one student."

Oh, the students doing fine was the furthest thing from her mind. She was talking about the critical mass of money that lets the diseducrats "do fine" while the students rot.

[steplock]

I just emailed the author a congratulkatory letter for his article.

We should always promote good writing (honest & truthful) whenever we read it.

[The Iguana]

Hats off to the usually very liberal Time and Joe Kelin for taking on this dismaying story.

The only real losers in all this, of course, are Detroit's schoolchildren.

[eureka!]

bump for later.

[lafroste]

What is this 'critical mass' garbage anyhow? Homeschoolers do fine with a 'critical mass' of one student

You have made an error. It is not critical mass of students, but critical mass of dollars; ie. the amount of money needed to hire enough people to earn enough money so that the union can syphon off enough in dues to keep the union leaders livin high on the hog.

It's about the influence of the union and the power of the parasites that control it.

Duhh.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That's a fact in EVERY school system. Bureaucrats rule.