{"id":355021,"date":"2018-04-03T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-modest-neoliberal-proposal\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:03:16","slug":"a-modest-neoliberal-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-modest-neoliberal-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Neoliberal Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s often repeated old news that U.S. public education is being\u00a0undermined by corporate interests and elitist ideologues<\/a>. Yet, this sinister trend continues at a quickening pace. How else explain our billionaire U.S. Secretary of Education,\u00a0Betsy Devos, and her agenda<\/a>? How else explain the\u00a0school-to-prison pipeline\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0arming teachers?<\/a>\u00a0Who doesn\u2019t know by now that we have\u00a0a\u00a0man-boy sociopath in the White House<\/a>\u00a0who doesn\u2019t care about the millions of young people his politicking harms? Then you have those who spend countless hours digesting Fox News, Breitbart, or the Wall Street Journal, loving the direction the country has taken: why concern oneself with education? Be concerned: don\u2019t be deceived by corporate-backed politicians and pundits who know little about the wholesome education of a young person; listen to verifiable educators in the field<\/a>. Stay concerned.<\/p>\n

Please share the following, especially the shout-outs at the end for\u00a0Teaching Agency for Equity: A Framework for Conscientious Engagement,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0released by Routledge. I am happy to report my poem, \u201cNorth American Education\u201d appears in the closing chapter. Also, if you haven\u2019t taken a peek yet, please visit\u00a0The Teacher\u2019s Voice (2004-2014 archived online)<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s a poetry journal I founded for teachers to express themselves. I like thinking\u00a0TTV<\/em>\u00a0did some good for its time.<\/p>\n

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A Modest Neoliberal Proposal
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I must say, torture the little bastards
for a good start. Pull their teeth out
as we…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s often repeated old news that U.S. public education is being\u00a0undermined by corporate interests and elitist ideologues. Yet, this sinister trend continues at a quickening pace. How else explain our billionaire U.S. Secretary of Education,\u00a0Betsy Devos, and her agenda? How else explain the\u00a0school-to-prison pipeline\u00a0and\u00a0arming teachers?\u00a0Who doesn\u2019t know by now that we have\u00a0a\u00a0man-boy sociopath in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-355021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}