FW: [March4Education] Another view of NEA on NCLB

[Marilyn Langlois <langlois-rine@comcast.net>]

Here's Scottie Smith's (longtime Richmond activist) take on Rich's NEA/NCLB
analysis. 

Need to find more who will break from the Cartel.

Marilyn
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From: rcs101@att.net
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:32:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [March4Education] Another view of NEA on NCLB

--Marilyn:

Thanks for the articles, it is not surprising to me, because if you remember
at one of our M4E meetings we read a poll on the different national
organizations that wanted to modify or amend it, but not end it. The both
line as far as NCLB is concerned is that the big bosses (union leaders) do
not have free range on money as many organizations got during the War on
Poverty. As soon as they get more money for themselves they will go about
the business of supporting NCLB without any concrete changes, just as the
faith based groups and others did with Welfare reform and now NCLB.

Wilbur Rich, professor, (Illionis?) wrote a book during the debates about
Education Reform and before NCLB, that there could be no serious education
reform as long as the Cartel mentality was in place. That is, the people who
depend on the business of education to make the big bucks would coopt those
in lesser positions to support them because to speak out would mean the
lesser persons lively hood, therefore, they would either give up teaching or
not speak out, because to do so would mean the larger Cartel would come down
on them and they could lose their jobs. In his book he looked at Boston,
Baltimore, and Detriot school systems and their reform efforts and what
happen to teachers and other school staff that fought the administrations
and unions reform methods.

Take a good look at Downer, the problem there is that the 10 teachers are
and were not members of the Cartel.

Scottie Smith