Re: Affirmative Action--or Class Solidarity?

[Mike Kluznik <mkluznik@HOTMAIL.COM>]

The business model has taken over in places other than education.
In Minnesota, I've heard state employees refer to patients at state
hospitals as "customers" or "clients."  Patients are there involuntarily.
What a farce.
Mike



> From: "George N. Schmidt" <Csubstance@AOL.COM>
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> Subject: Re: Affirmative Action--or Class Solidarity?
> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 10:06:53 EDT
>
> In a message dated 9/5/01 4:49:06 PM, aburke@VANSD.ORG writes:
>
> << Since many "publicly traded companies" fail, this model clearly falls
> short.  Art
>  >>
>
> Yes.
>
> And as part of their propaganda, the Business Roundtable and others foisted
> the "CEO Model" on many urban public schools (beginning with Chicago).
>
> And three years ago, Forbes did a piece praising Chicago's CEO Paul Vallas.
> It was entitled "Chainsaw Paul" -- a tribute to "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap, who
> led
> Sunbeam into ruin (and bankruptcy) under the banner of "increased
> shareholder
> value..."
>
> Now that there are a great many disreputable CEO types getting in the news
> for misdeeds like Al Dunlap's, perhaps more and more intelligent people
> will
> stop hyperventilating every time someone suggests that "CEO" equals
> anything
> but greedy robber baron type.
>
> Before the bubble of the '90s, most Americans knew this. With the
> increasing
> number of bankruptcies now flowing out of the old NYSE and NASDAQ
> corporations, maybe we should update once a month with an new roll of
> dishonor.
>
> Sunbeam
> USG
>
> etc.
> etc.
> etc.
>
> But their executives are not usually the ones who suffer the most. It's the
> shareholders (some little; some "institutional") who were duped who are
> left
> holding valueless stock certificates -when the Al Dunlaps leave the ruins
> of
> their cheap PR stunts behind.
>
> Ditto our public schools when we've finally sorted through, audited and
> exposed each of the "bottom line" lies the Testocracy foisted on us the
> past
> ten years or so.
>
> George Schmidt
>
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