A good rant

[drscott]

Via Colby Cosh, a profane and iconoclastic rant about the NEA, from Vice Magazine.

One thing I can still do when I'm dizzy: read. The intended project for the week (washing and waterproofing the shake roof) has been put off.

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

This is a rant, so it's expected to be one-sided. There are plenty of detailed arguments to be made, and the author isn't even trying to make them, he just wants to use the big sledgehammer. But I thought it was good provocation.

I remember when one of my favorite, most progressive teachers was the union guy in my junior high. As usually happens, though, 30 years later the idealistic movement has been captured by those who use it for their own benefit, and the monopoly nature of public schools traps its clients and allows the abuse to continue.


As a private-school teacher, you're in a different environment.

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

Um, yeah...LOL...believe you me, if there's anyone who knows that my environment is different, it's me. I grew up in public schools...and things have gotten even worse in the past 12 years.

I totally don't envy public school teachers their jobs.

Perhaps the correct way to work things is some combination of current arrangements with vouchers incorporated...but I really do think a voucher-only system is scary.