Phony school “reform” agenda takes a beating
The media barely noticed, but voters in three states rejected the profit-driven fraud that is education “reform”
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/13/phony_school_reform_agenda_takes_a_beating/
I have decried our education system several times, particularly with respect to the ‘educational industrial complex‘ (see also here). It is interesting (and heartening) to me to see that this approach is being rejected, particularly by so-called ‘red’ states. I am somewhat optimistic that the pendulum is now swinging back towards the center (where it will race by to some other extreme, but such is the nature of pendulums). As a side note (but tangentially related), I am also glad to see that the huge ‘investment’ (to rich people, any money spent is an ‘investment’) made by the oligarchy to purchase our election was largely wasted. Clearly it was a close thing and without a doubt the Democrats were very well organized and laser focused on the parts of the country that mattered (which is all the more ‘shocking’ that someone supposedly as smart as Romney is to fuck up so much, but then again, his whole strategy was simply to be ‘not Obama’, so why waste resources, eh?), but the oligarchy poured lots of money into a whole suite of contests and lost so many of them, one has to wonder if they will continue to throw good money after bad or if they will decide that it is cheaper to buy the elected official after they have taken office.
