From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical....The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.-- Howard Zinn (1994), You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, p. 173
Yes, politicians have fabricated a crisis to distract us from real problems like growing poverty. Their crisis is also self-serving. The worse schools look, the more willing the public is to accept corporatist fixes, like charter schools and EMOs. By portraying teachers and their unions as corrupt or bumbling, they hasten the demise of organized labor in the public sector.
Yes, politicians have fabricated a crisis to distract us from real problems like growing poverty. Their crisis is also self-serving. The worse schools look, the more willing the public is to accept corporatist fixes, like charter schools and EMOs. By portraying teachers and their unions as corrupt or bumbling, they hasten the demise of organized labor in the public sector.
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