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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Jim Horn piece on CommonDreams
All you will accomplish with this bizarre attempt to enlist Martin Luther King in your anti-charter crusade is provide further evidence of how out of touch you are. Why you set yourselves up that way is beyond me. Art -----Original Message----- From: Brian LeCloux <neaguy@hotmail.com> To: Assessment Reform Network <arn-l@interversity.org> Sent: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 10:08 am Subject: [arn-l] Jim Horn piece on CommonDreams http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/16-3 Good call, Jim. As a social democrat, Dr. King would definitely oppose the current, dominant use of the charter school model. Toward the end of his life he saw the capitalist, for-profit model interfering with the many reforms he advocated. Were he alive today he might be challenging Duncan, Obama, Broad, Gates, etc. to harness their "drum major instincts". Brian "This is a nation where citizens are politically divided, distracted, uninterested, and submissive, and where 'elites' are happy to keep them that way." ---Paul Street, historian
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