Subject: and here is what I wrote at the Ravitch blog, in the commen
Comment:
See Original Content on OpEdNews in article titled "Bernie Sanders' High School Yearbook Photo with OEN Member Susan Schwartz"
and here is what I wrote at the Ravitch blog, in the commentary thread:
We need a leader!
"I cannot begin to imagine the potential chaos that would ensue if a 'character' like Trump or Carson, or any those GOP charlatans, represented our nation on the national stage at such a precarious moment in history.
"How could Bernie and I know that in our senior years , we would be caught in an era of extreme technological transformation -- a time when a new space --CYBERSPACE -- had opened -- a space where anarchy reigns, and where it is possible for insane people with malicious agendas to reck havoc on innocents, and that we face several crisis..
"I believe that Bernie knows that after climate change , the crisis here in the US is one of income inequality. He know that this is THE crucial issue of our time.
"I know that real equality begins with education in childhood. If Bernie wants to end income inequality he needs to put the PUBLIC back in PUBLIC schools, because THAT is where equality begins! We need to return to a public system that ensures that every child has a school down the road, in the 'hood' where all kids learn to LEARN! THAT education was THE road to the American dream, and it has been under assault for 30 years by a dedicated group of billionaires who want see democracy eroded.
"PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS WHERE ALL FUTURE CITIZENS DISCOVER TRUTH, AND EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS to be an adult in a democratic society.
"I know that IF Bernie talks to Diane she will clearly set HIM ON THE JOURNEY that he must take in order to SECURE the crucial funding the support the classroom teacher must have; I think that he will choose an education secretary who will strive to RESTORE the crucial AUTONOMY for lesson planning to the teacher" TO THE CLASSROOM PROFESSIONAL-- the teacher-practitioner!
"For a teacher is A PRACTITIONER of a PROFESSION -- Pedagogy: the principles that actually ENABLE the BRAIN to do what IT MUST DO -- in order to acquire skills and knowledge"BOTH! Pedagogy is as complicated as law and all the science.
BERNIE respects teachers, the profession, and he is genuinely committed to our people, not to the Education Industrial Complex, the priviteers and hedge funds who are profiting from the destruction of public education. Some of these very people are in Hillary's corner.
She is talking a good talk, suddenly, about 'schools' but make no mistake, Hillary is not committed to changing anything."
A message to Bernie.#CallSusan
BERNIE: call me. YOU need to speak to Diane Ravitch and me, so you can really address the root cause of income equality. She, the academic, and I , the classroom teacher can explain the reality of what occurred, and what is CURRENTLY afoot in education. ONLY YOU, can bring back genuine public education, and restore the ONLY road to INCOME EQUALITY. Time is fleeting. (Rob Kall will be happy to give you my email and phone number... LOL)