These must be the school uniforms
Posted on 03/03/2009 10:03:04 AM PST by Lorianne
What worked at one time in this country's history is an education model that not only transformed the United States, but it also brought about a completely different world. That model was created for the agricultural and industrial eras, ones we are far removed from yet we continue to educate our children based on the horse-and-buggy and the Model T mentality. This is the system Ms. Rhee is trying to fix and I want to bury it.
There are few of us in the battle for our children's minds and hearts in hopes of educating them with new paradigms of thought. Instead, our children are growing up to become adults that shortly will end up at parents' or someone's doorstep cloaked in a pink slip.
Society is happy educating our children in these bling schools. I am not. Children educated in these schools will live a life of thin pockets carrying deadly plastic aplenty. Bling schools cannot fulfill parents' and children's hopes for an education that will make them competitive in the coming synergistic era.
This current economic meltdown has driven home one basic fact: greed and the bling life is a virus sapping at the economic foundation of this country. And our children come out of schools not knowing how to make change for a dollar without a machine's help or an understanding of the value of that money, which, by the way, doesn't buy happiness and can't be earned by old paradigm educated children.
Ms. Rhee will not get far trying to fix bling schools. Instead, she must be bold and demand that we take the wrecking ball to our outdated education model, which is turning us into a nation of people with bankrupt minds, a bleak prospect for our future.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsblaze.com ...
Rhee Says Consultant's Report Shows Pay Plan Is Sustainable
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/03/02/ST2009030202934.html
Michelle Rhee Threatend End-Run Around Teachers' Union
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/02/michelle-rhee-threatens-e_n_171041.html
Will Obama Stand Up for These Kids?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123604286020215187.html
ok what is a bling school?
I’m not sure, but I infer it’s one where you spend a lot of money on it and it’s basically worthless junk.
LOL that’s pretty good.
What is her point? Why her focus on the stock market and the leftie-themes of corporate greed? What does that have to do with primary school education?
While school districts are weighed down serving special interests, better eduction in the end has nothing to do with the ability to spend more money.
The USA once had a commonly accepted history and culture. This is no longer the case.
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