Re: Charter Schools, Unions and Death Wishes

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

Wow.  I would have hoped that a teachers' union would open  a charter school 
primarily as an opportunty to shape education more  directly according to its 
collective wisdom and experience, rather  than as a rearguard samurai defense 
against the "right  wing."   The latter kind of makes parents and kids just 
means to  your end, doesn't it?
 
Art
 
In a message dated 6/22/2006 6:32:45 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
leoecasey@optonline.net writes:

Let me  get this right, George.

Teacher unions are getting our asses kicked  because we have let the right 
wing get a strong base in the charter school  movement without contesting them.

So the great strategic solution is to  abandon charter schools altogether to 
the right wing, and give them free rein  to use them against us.

Rather than working with Bob Moses, who has an  effort to create a cohort of 
union, progressive charter schools in New  Orleans, we should leave him out 
there on his own, condemning him as a  scab.

Why not just commit ritual harikari?

It fulfills the death  wish instantly, and does not drag out the death  
throes.

Leo