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  • From: "Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz" <westerhj@gvsu.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:21:28 -0400
Does anyone know where to get an article by Gerry Bracey in which he contrasts the mindset of restauranteers with that of educators? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz



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>>> arn-l-owner@interversity.org 09/10/06 6:21 AM >>>
ARN-L Daily Digest
Volume 3 : Issue 238 : "text" Format

Messages in this Issue:
200609/54 : [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?]
Rick Parkany
200609/56 : Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?]
ABurke5054
200609/57 : Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We
Rick Parkany
200609/55 : Re: another Chicago hero
ABurke5054
200609/58 : Re: [eddra] High-scoring KIPP and its mysterious ways
Peter Farruggio

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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:53:18 -0400
From: Rick Parkany <rparkany@borg.com>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?]
Message-ID: <4502B93E.4010009@borg.com>

Now HERE's the FULL Monty...

...NOT the Corporate Monty, not the timid, good ol' American
Progressivism, preached this list, that abhores revolutionary,
*punctuated equilibrium* of systemic change in favor of that gradual,
evolutionary change that NEVER occurs in this country because of the
hegemonous coopting that IS American Political System.

Right, Geroge Schmidt?

Not much to add, here, Folks! This one says it all from Rich Gibson,
doesn't it?

Edify! ;-} rap.

PS: I met my children in the classrooms this week. I won't even try
to make a report from the halls of the Run-of-the-Mill HEROs I meet
every day who don't or can't make local or national headlines, either
because they don't have their own politcal gin-mill, nor cuddle up
within a support group of 35 years because they've HAD to move so often,
since each time they begin their work, they show up like a shiney penny
in a pile of wooden nickels...when teachers like I and many others I
know are denied tenure or outright fired for teaching socially
constructivist curriculae rather than drill & kill scripted fodder OR
run up head-long into some parochial, old gals network (80% of the
teachers in our middle schools in Utica are FEmale and BOY! do they
entrench odd agendas OFF the educational map!) we don't get a Hurrah!
nor narry a Huzzah! do we?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:42:34 -0700
From: Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>
To: (Recipient list suppressed)



Dear Friends,

The massive social uprising in Oaxaca demonstrates the Rouge Forum
thesis that struggles initiated in schools can become uprisings that
begin real social change. It proves the centripetal role of schooling in
today's society. That fight is best documented on NarcoNews, online
http://www.narconews.com/

The Detroit school workers, on strike for 12 days, were enjoined from
continuing the strike on Friday afternoon, and the union was ordered to
hold a mass meeting to tell the teachers to return to work. That meeting
will be on Sunday at 4 pm at Cobo Hall, the same place where the
spontaneous 1999 vote was taken to start a wildcat strike, opposed by
the union, declared illegal by the government, fought by business. . The
wildcat was a success in proving that workers who create political
reality can defy unjust laws. http://clogic.eserver.org/2_2/gibson.html

The Detroit Federation of Teachers is on strike because rank and file
educators are in a position similar to the California grocery strikers.
They must fight back because they have little choice. Educators have
made more than $65 million in concessions in the last five years.
Conditions in schools are often deplorable. Respect from top
administrators, clearly absent. Shortly after teachers made concessions
last year, the administrators took 10% pay raises.

In the wildcat, Detroit educators learned they could strike, violate the
law, and do it without their union leaders, a fact the leaders probably
heard more clearly than the teachers. Irrelevance is a big fear of union
bureaucrats.

Many forces collide in Detroit. The local Detroit ruling classes believe
they are completely cornered. If the schools are constantly in crisis,
no one is going to gentrify Detroit. So they must fight. The union
leaders are trapped between a habit of selling out, concessions, and a
rank and file that cannot take more sellouts. The judge is trapped by an
electorate which might be sympathetic to the strike, and higher-ups who
are certainly not. The Mayor and others argue the strike could demolish
what is left of the city.

What settles this is connecting reason to power, the task of every
educator every day. Power, for school workers, lies in the ability to
build close ties with kids, parents, community people, on a rank and
file basis, and to take independent direct action, as the AFL-CIO is
going to fight against this strike just as it ruined the grocery strike,
and the Detroit Newspaper strike, where union goons attacked rank and
filers on picket lines, turning people in to the police, to protect
social peace for the Clinton vote.
http://www.pipeline.com/%7Ergibson/IWWCHEST.html

The DFT leadership did all it could to prevent another mass meeting of
teachers, like the one ordered for Sunday. The DFT leadership changed
the ratification process for contracts, so teachers would not have a
chance to see each other in a mass meeting and vote thumbs up or down in
a public vote, but that they would vote back in the schools, or by
mail--probably meaning that they would return to work before a vote was
finished.

Detroit teachers should tell the judge the same thing that John L. Lewis
said about the Taft- Harley injunction that was handed to his coal
miners' union, "Let Taft mine it, and Hartley haul it."

A court order cannot teach kids, nor even warehouse them. 9000 teachers
are not going to be fired and jailed. Detroit is not Crestwood, where
the Michigan Education Association betrayed a militant strike in a tiny
district, all the teachers fired and permanently replaced. Detroit
educators can defend this strike.

It would have been much easier to defend if the DFT had planned freedom
schools for Detroit kids and parents during the strike, schools that
taught outside the bounds of scripted curricula, and if the DFT had
demanded an end to racist, high-stakes testing which is pivotal in the
wreckage of schooling today.

But the DFT cannot do that since the DFT opposes free schooling and the
examination of why things are as they are, because the DFT leadership is
part of the problem, and, moreover, it was the DFT-AFT that initiated
the high stakes tests along with the US Chambers of Commerce, and
others. So, the ties in the community that could win this strike are not
yet there, but it is not impossible for rank and filers to forge them.

Many possibilities exist. The strike could collapse under the
injunction, and a real sellout come out later, but Rouge Forum members
say that it may well not. A deal could be cut between this writing and
the Sunday meeting, but if it is a concession contract, the educators
will be in an uproar. It might be that the DFT leadership would look
back to the corrupt legacy of Al Shanker and realize that they
themselves could make careers of a judge's jail sentence for continuing
the strike, and in jail they could get some rest.

But the key to the strike is whether or not the rank and file teachers,
perhaps walking door to door, can build solidarity with their communities.

In any case, Detroit and Oaxaca school workers have offered working
people many invaluable lessons. Their courage and perseverance is to be
applauded, right now. An injury to one really does just go before an
injury to all. Tell the DPS bosses to give they will lose, that we will
never forget. http://www.detroit.k12.mi.us/

Below is a letter drafted by teachers to parents in their school. The
DFT has done, to my knowledge, little or nothing like it.

Why Are The Teachers Striking?
A Letter to Our Parents
Don''t think for a moment that it doesn''t hurt us when we see your
children clean and pressed and ready for the first day of school, only
to find none of us inside the school building. We want to be in our
classrooms ready to begin the new year. But this year, we cannot. We
want you to know this strike is about more than raises in teacher
salaries and benefits (although that is part of it). It is about
standing up for your children''s rights to a free and appropriate
education. It is about drawing a line in the sand and telling the
district that we won''t stand for substandard school conditions that
don''t afford our urban children the same opportunities as children who
attend public school in other school districts.
We are standing behind this line because we believe in your children,
and we are committed to providing a quality education with the tools
they need to grow into successful adults. To do our jobs well, we need
certain things that the district is not providing. The district is
making poor choices about how to spend the $7,600 per child that the
State gives each year. The district has been making poor choices for a
long time, and that is why we are in the situation we are in The
district should change the way they manage the money, rethink their
spending priorities and not ask the teachers or students to make any
more sacrifices to cover their negligent spending.
The teachers'' issues are:

· Money being spent on high-priced leased office
buildings with high-priced, fancy furniture and computers for
administrators.
· Spending thousands per student on five standardized
tests. If one could be eliminated, much money and time could be
spent more wisely to help our neighborhood school have the basics.
· A drinking fountain that works on each floor,
repaired ceilings, clean and painted walls, lights that work in each
classroom and hallways, clean bathrooms with doors, toilets and
sinks working. Floors that are not buckled from water, a school
library for the students and staff, classrooms wired for the
internet, a computer that works in each classroom, a computer lab, a
safe and clean playground, safe sidewalks with curbs- not cracks and
holes, and adequate cleaning staff to meet the demands of the
overcrowded classrooms.
· Forty students in a classroom is unacceptable.
Uncertified substitutes being placed in classrooms to fill teacher
vacancies is inexcusable. Our classroom aides and noon hour aides
are being cut. They are greatly needed to support the staff and
students.

We are standing for your children and hope that you will stand with us
too. Other cities are looking at how this will turn out, and we are
standing for those children and those teachers, too. We think there is
enough money to teach our children well, if it is spent wisely in the
school and not in the administration building. When we say no contract;
no work we are asking for conditions that are equitable for children and
teachers alike. If you have ANY QUESTIONS, please don''t hesitate to
ask. We want you to understand the reasons we are standing outside the
school, away from our classrooms because of the problems we are faced
with and we hope you will stand with us for the children because NO
CHILD SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND.
Respectfully yours,
The teachers at Neinas Elementary School, September 5, 2006




"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
(Encyclopedia Italiana,Giovanni Gentile, ed.).
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/PromOriginal/EconomyOfWar/EconomicsOfWar.html
--
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust!
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
Richard A. Parkany: Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA



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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 10:26:46 EDT
From: ABurke5054@aol.com
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?]
Message-ID: <4a9.10326b80.32342926@aol.com>


In a message dated 9/9/2006 5:53:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rparkany@borg.com writes:

...when teachers like I and many others I know are denied tenure or outright
fired for teaching socially constructivist curriculae rather than drill &
kill scripted fodder OR run up head-long into some parochial, old gals network
(80% of the teachers in our middle schools in Utica are FEmale and BOY! do
they entrench odd agendas OFF the educational map!) we don't get a Hurrah! nor
narry a Huzzah! do we?



_______________________________________________________________
So Parkany says George Bush, the Fordham Foundation, and the Business
Roundtable aren't the problem after all. The real problems are failure to
appreciate "socially constructivist curriculae" and that so many teachers are female.
And you learned it right here, in the wacky world of ARN.

Art


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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:43:51 -0400
From: Rick Parkany <rparkany@borg.com>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We
Message-ID: <4502D327.40402@borg.com>

YEP, Art: most times it's ALL about PERSONAL or PRIVATE agendas in the
classroom, rather than class consciousness.

But, then, again, that's what we get from the social studies curriculum
that's lost it's punch in the pabulum we're force fed since kindergarten
about the Mythology of America's *Golden Age*!

Even George Schmidt will have to acknowledge that the only REAL
political change that's ever occured--if even for only a half-generation
in these USofAmeriKKKa--has been bought with blood in the streets. And
_this_ MATH Teacher has to remind you as well as the George Schmidts, as
well.

Don't believe me, look to the graves and the prison roles for the proof,
yourselves! Start w/the Whiskey Rebellion (Geo Washington was the
BIGGEST distiller in the New Republic and had HIS agenda honed in my
Homestate, go on through the Civil War, PAST the first Roosevelt,
remember the Veteran's Camps shot through by MacArthur and his
goons...my Uncle Jimmy told me tales about those unionists shot in the
head in the mines near my home town for organizing, go past Jim Crow,
into the Civil Rights movements, and don't just stop @ Kent State...

...your glibness is such a wasted effort, Art; why not apply some
brainpower and a lacing of compassion when you write?

Retirement hasn't done you ANY favours, apparently, nor us, indeed!
;-} rap.

ABurke5054@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/9/2006 5:53:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> rparkany@borg.com writes:
>
> ...when teachers like I and many others I know are denied tenure
> or outright fired for teaching socially constructivist curriculae
> rather than drill & kill scripted fodder OR run up head-long into
> some parochial, old gals network (80% of the teachers in our
> middle schools in Utica are FEmale and BOY! do they entrench odd
> agendas OFF the educational map!) we don't get a Hurrah! nor narry
> a Huzzah! do we?
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> So Parkany says George Bush, the Fordham Foundation, and the Business
> Roundtable aren't the problem after all. The real problems are
> failure to appreciate "socially constructivist curriculae" and that
> so many teachers are female. And you learned it right here, in the
> wacky world of ARN.
>
> Art


"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism
because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
(Encyclopedia Italiana,Giovanni Gentile, ed.).
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/PromOriginal/EconomyOfWar/EconomicsOfWar.html
--
"Dein Wachstum sei feste und lache vor Lust!
Deines Herzens Trefflichkeit
Hat dir selbst das Feld bereit',
Auf dem du bluehen musst." JS Bach: Bauern Kantata
Richard A. Parkany: Prometheus Educational Services
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/
Upper Hudson & Mohawk Valleys; New York State, USA



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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 10:15:22 EDT
From: ABurke5054@aol.com
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Subject: Re: another Chicago hero
Message-ID: <323.b81c13c.3234267a@aol.com>

In a message dated 9/8/2006 7:24:08 AM Pacific Standard Time,
shays@ccwebster.net writes:

... So, Mr. McGreal did not "close the door" to any students by capping
enrollment in his already overcrowded school. He merely referred
them to those other Chicago City Schools that are NOT overcrowded and
have tons of room for the overflow. Now, it is up to the Board of
Education to figure out how to solve the problem (of its own creation)


_____________________________________________________
Right. McGreal didn't close the door on the kids - he just refused to open
it and told them to go somewhere else. Thanks for clearing that up. I'm
sure that made all the difference in the world to the parents and kids who were
turned away. Here we have a new principle in American education, which
should be called the Hays Principle: Kids showing up at the schoolhouse door are
somebody else's problem.

Art




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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:07:22 -0700
From: Peter Farruggio <pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>
To: <eddra@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [eddra] High-scoring KIPP and its mysterious ways
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20060909180557.03b78eb0@cal.berkeley.edu>

I thought so! We need to get this out to the
public as much as we can. Just as with Lorraine
Monroe's highly publicized Frederick Douglass
Academy, a magnet school in Harlem (which creams
for students with a strict admissions pledge that
parents must agree to), these "No Excuses" KIPP
schools receive extra foundation funding that
enables them to provide important extras that
make a big difference for working class
kids. We'd all love to offer such services as
extra tutoring, safe supervised campuses open
from dawn to dusk, Saturday enrichment and parent
classes, expert foreign language teachers (and
European summer travel!), take-home laptops, etc
in our overcrowded, underfunded, dilapidated
public schools. The conservative standardistas
and privatizers don't want the public to know
about this unfair advantage because it's part of
their overall strategy to justify tax cuts and
savage reductions in social spending by making
public education look bad. And thanks to them it
is bad and getting worse in inner-city
neighborhoods and low income rural areas, where
the militarization of working class kids has once
again become the norm through scripted programs
and narrow, test-prep curricula, designed to
produce a "disciplined," low wage workforce and
cannon fodder for the imperialist military. The
least we can do is try to expose the hypocrisy of these creeps.

Pete Farruggio

At 10:10 AM 9/9/2006, Caroline Grannan wrote:

>Both. They get major funding from the Gap's Don
>and Doris Fisher, plus I think the usual suspects (Gates, Walton, Broad etc.).
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:pfarr@cal.berkeley.edu>Peter Farruggio
>To: <mailto:eddra@yahoogroups.com>eddra@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [eddra] High-scoring KIPP and its mysterious ways
>
>Question: How does KIPP get the money to fund
>the student store, public funds (ADA) or private donations?
>
>
>
>At 01:07 PM 9/8/2006, cmgrannan wrote:
>
>>Blog item from www.sfschools.org ,where I co-blog:
>>
>>The KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy, run by a national (San
>>Francisco-based) charter chain that's widely hailed by pundits and the
>>press, is in the news for a sharp gain in test scores. It now posts a
>>higher API than almost all other SFUSD middle schools.
>>
>>Though I'm a charter skeptic, I'm not going to try to interpret or
>>debunk that result. I hope it's legit and that those kids really are
>>learning and achieving at the high level those scores would indicate.
>>Maybe I'll see the light and become a charter supporter after all.
>>
>>Naturally, I'm curious. I have acquired the school's 2006-2007 Parent
>>Handbook, which gives an interesting view of the school culture. Here
>>are some impressions and quotes.
>>
>>KIPP appears to be very aggressive about retaining kids based on
>>achievement. That does make me wonder about the actual age levels of
>>the kids tested as being in certain grades * are 13-year-olds taking
>>the 5th-grade STAR tests? I don't know what the requirements are in
>>this area. (Of course, they could be skipping kids ahead too, and
>>testing them ahead of grade.)
>>
>>KIPP has a lavish "paycheck" system that rewards kids with credits at
>>the student store for basically everything. It's clearly a driving
>>force, a huge part of the school culture. I don't know what's
>>available at the student store.
>>
>>Parent Handbook:
>>
>>" By the end of a regular 5 day week, students will have had the
>>opportunity to earn up to $200 Bay dollars, which they can then spend
>>at the student store. "
>>
>>There's a punitive designation called YET for students whose paychecks
>>fall below $170 or $180, depending on grade level.
>>
>>Parent Handbook:
>>
>>" YET is designed as a consequence for students who aren't making
>>the best decisions yet. The YET group's consequences will be
>>determined by the grade level, but might include the following,
>>effective for the week following a low paycheck:
>>* Silent lunch in a classroom.
>>* Loss of extra privileges (i.e. field trips, assemblies, school
>>store, etc.).
>>* Reflection/goal-setting assignment signed by parents. Students
>>in YET earn their way off at the end of the week as long as their
>>goals have been signed by their parents. "
>>
>>So the norm would be for each kid who doesn't mess up to get $180-$200
>>in store credit per week. Without seeing the store and the prices, we
>>don't know how powerful an incentive that is.
>>
>>KIPP's punishment system is called The Bench, and is basically
>>shunning. It's for violations from physical aggression and vandalism
>>to untucked shirt, chewing gum or talking to a benched student. It
>>lasts for two days if they do everything right.
>>
>>Parent Handbook:
>>
>>" If a student makes one of the poor choices [listed infractions],
>>he or she must be "off the team" and is subjected to the following
>>until earning his/her way off:
>>* No talking, except to staff (freshmen and sophomores) [KIPP
>>refers to its students, who are in grades 5-8, as freshmen through
>>seniors, and the student body as a team].
>>* Wearing a bench sticker
>>* Loss of all privileges
>>* Silent lunch away from the team
>>* Detention from 5-5:30
>>* Grade level appropriate letter explaining why s/he should be
>>accepted back to the team
>>* Participation in a family meeting [it's not clear whether this
>>means the student's family or is referring to the school community as
>>a family; there is another use of the latter] (in all cases except
>>talking to bench student, gum, and untucked shirt)
>>* One or more logical consequences as decided by teacher/admin...
>>* Public apology at Grade Level Team and Family (juniors and seniors)
>>* Meeting with Student Discipline Committee (SDC) where they
>>review the student's apology letter and decide whether s/he should be
>>off the bench..." "
>>[If the SDC and/or asst. principal so decide, the student is
>>benched until another review the following week.]
>>
>>There are also time-outs, with a time-out space in each classroom.
>>
>>Naturally there are strict uniform rules and requirements that
>>students walk in the hall in a silent line.
>>
>>There's a "volume meter" in each classroom. "Teachers are expected to
>>inform students as to which voice level is appropriate for various
>>activities," ranging from 0 (silent) to 4 (chants, songs etc.).
>>There's more about all this.
>>
>>Also, on the wall of the school were posters about incentives for
>>bringing in new students. Students get a $25 Old Navy/Gap certificate
>>for successfully bringing in a new student, and there are school store
>>incentives for even bringing in an inquiry. The class that brings in
>>the most new students gets an incentive too.
>>
>>I stopped by the facility that houses that KIPP school and also
>>Gateway Charter High School this morning. The doorbell-type "call
>>bell" is "broken," so there's no way to enter unannounced * or at all,
>>for that matter. A passing high-schooler let me in. I wonder if that's
>>the normal procedure.
>>
>>Interesting and mysterious place. I look forward to learning more
>>about it.
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