Although in plain sight daily, a highly successful war against the
public schools has been hidden in the shadows of public
consciousness. Only very recently have several people written
articles about this war, with the only book calling it a war being
written in 2002. Neither the public nor educators have become aware
of the far-reaching extent and effectiveness of this war. This book
treats this war as part of an extensive social movement that is
conducting wars also against government and science, as well as
against women, immigrants, the poor (but not against poverty), and,
certainly, against unions. However, the book focuses on the war
against the public schools. It sets the stage in Chapter One,
Checklist for Destroying Public Education, followed by Chapter Two,
How the War Plays Out on the Battlefield - Seven Examples that
illustrate and prove the thesis. One example involves a private
for-profit company that took over a school district in Michigan,
but found that they couldn't make a profit running the high school.
So what did they do? They simply closed it, leaving the students
high and dry. We provide a chapter analyzing the considerable
profits being made by entrepreneurs, businessmen, politicians,
testing companies and charter schools. We then describe and analyze
the overt and covert attacks on our kids, on teachers and on public
schools, such as the clever idea of grading schools A, B, C, D, or
F, thereby undermining public confidence in their local schools. We
focus on the arsenal of weapons aimed at the public schools, such
as privatization, intrusion of politicians into educational
decision-making, vouchers, using merit pay and Value-Added Models
(VAMs) to evaluate teachers, charter schools, extremely intensive
testing, the standards movement, etc. We look at unintended
consequences and conclude with attempts at peaceful resolutions and
developing reconciliation strategies.
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