Excellent, I had no idea that the Koch brothers were involved with public education and returning segregation to the schools. However, I have never agreed with forced busing. Kids should go to schools near where they live. So the neighborhood is all black or all white - As long as the education provided is the same - where is there an issue? In high school Bosse was about 60% white and 40% black. When I transfered to North - 95% - 5%. The schooling was the same. Now, banning a black from attending a pre-dominately white school would be wrong.
But, dealing with the issue beind the video - What is behind CFG and the KOCH's interest in a school board race in North Carolina? It would seem that a hidden agenda is at work here.
Here is is: Don't vote of anyone who takes money from the Koch's or CFG and/or signed their no taxes pledge.
Insisting that students attend classes close to their home neighborhoods has always been an attractive selling point for those who favor segregation. No blacks live in your neighborhood? Then why should they be in your neighborhood school... So what you end up with is one school with resources, community involvement, and academic support systems and another with no resources (their test scores don't warrant more investment, you see) no community involvement (poverty at home is often accompanied by single parent households, multiple jobs requirements, less time for structured involvement with kids and their schools) and few academic support systems. Then the standardized tests come back showing one school is successful, another fails, and funding is cut even further out of whack. Diversity improves educational opportunities for everyone, and pointing back toward a 1950's Andy of Mayberry lily white school population or a voucher system that destroys true public education is the death of diversity. The Koch brothers are evil incarnate, Merchants of Evil who make Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life" look like Santa. Glad you posted this, hope more people take the time to watch it through. And think it through. This has a lot more to do with private schools than with neighborhood schools. The agenda is bare-faced and toxic.
Sarge, True it's best to get the kids in a near by school. But don't overlook how this is being used. This is going to be used to starve black schools of everything but dope, and funnel money, resources and publicity to white schools. The purpose of this is scapegoating racism and the continuation of the GOP's transfer of wealth and advantage to upper class whites through a gradual shift in these local schools into voucher systems giving much of the money to church schools and the rest to businesses to operate schools.
Squatlo, Darth Vader's Death Star lacked the sophisticated stealth the Koch's enjoy. Mainstream will not touch it, they'd stick their sons hand in the blender first. For that matter, it appears they are within the law of Citizens Untied. According to this video they gave hundreds of thousands to a local school board election, they have given millions and millions to a number of state elections down to the dog catcher race. KS, OK, Minn. Wisc, Wyoming were the 5 I was aware they played heavily in.
Another attempt at increasing educational opportunities for at-risk low-income/minority types and whatever is inclusionary zoning. It turns out there is great resistance to that, too.
Excellent, I had no idea that the Koch brothers were involved with public education and returning segregation to the schools. However, I have never agreed with forced busing. Kids should go to schools near where they live. So the neighborhood is all black or all white - As long as the education provided is the same - where is there an issue? In high school Bosse was about 60% white and 40% black. When I transfered to North - 95% - 5%. The schooling was the same.
ReplyDeleteNow, banning a black from attending a pre-dominately white school would be wrong.
But, dealing with the issue beind the video - What is behind CFG and the KOCH's interest in a
school board race in North Carolina? It would seem that a hidden agenda is at work here.
Here is is: Don't vote of anyone who takes money from the Koch's or CFG and/or signed their no taxes pledge.
Sarge
Sarge
Insisting that students attend classes close to their home neighborhoods has always been an attractive selling point for those who favor segregation. No blacks live in your neighborhood? Then why should they be in your neighborhood school... So what you end up with is one school with resources, community involvement, and academic support systems and another with no resources (their test scores don't warrant more investment, you see) no community involvement (poverty at home is often accompanied by single parent households, multiple jobs requirements, less time for structured involvement with kids and their schools) and few academic support systems.
ReplyDeleteThen the standardized tests come back showing one school is successful, another fails, and funding is cut even further out of whack.
Diversity improves educational opportunities for everyone, and pointing back toward a 1950's Andy of Mayberry lily white school population or a voucher system that destroys true public education is the death of diversity.
The Koch brothers are evil incarnate, Merchants of Evil who make Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life" look like Santa.
Glad you posted this, hope more people take the time to watch it through. And think it through.
This has a lot more to do with private schools than with neighborhood schools. The agenda is bare-faced and toxic.
Good analysis Squatlo.
ReplyDeleteThis video was created by Brave New Foundation. You can go here to get involved with fighting this atrocity of an idea:
http://www.bravenewfoundation.org/
Americans for prosperity? Prosperity for whom?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that all roads now have only right turns and lead to the Koch brothers.
Sarge,
ReplyDeleteTrue it's best to get the kids in a near by school. But don't overlook how this is being used. This is going to be used to starve black schools of everything but dope, and funnel money, resources and publicity to white schools. The purpose of this is scapegoating racism and the continuation of the GOP's transfer of wealth and advantage to upper class whites through a gradual shift in these local schools into voucher systems giving much of the money to church schools and the rest to businesses to operate schools.
Squatlo,
ReplyDeleteDarth Vader's Death Star lacked the sophisticated stealth the Koch's enjoy. Mainstream will not touch it, they'd stick their sons hand in the blender first. For that matter, it appears they are within the law of Citizens Untied. According to this video they gave hundreds of thousands to a local school board election, they have given millions and millions to a number of state elections down to the dog catcher race. KS, OK, Minn. Wisc, Wyoming were the 5 I was aware they played heavily in.
Jadedj:
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link.
Hey, people, go to it.
Whit,
ReplyDeleteA lot of Kansas ya-whos have tried to change this nation by taking action they saw as appropriate; John Brown, McVeigh/Nichols, Koch.
Another attempt at increasing educational opportunities for at-risk low-income/minority types and whatever is inclusionary zoning. It turns out there is great resistance to that, too.
ReplyDelete