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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 11:29 AM Original message |
Arne Duncan is an educational chicken hawk. |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. He's a champion of Charter Schools |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. Such a bullshit statement, it's not even funny. (nt) |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. And how is that 'all'? |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #3 |
21. The part that assumes only a teacher could possibly know what to do in education. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 09:21 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Let me ask you this, would you put your medical decisions into the hands of a plumber? |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 10:00 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. My personal medical decisions? No. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. That's the trouble, Duncan isn't an expert on educational policy |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 12:13 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. He was a public school superintendent. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 07:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. He was a "CEO." |
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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. It's not meant to be funny. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 08:46 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. What Duncan is doing in education is far, far from an atrocity. |
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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Teachers disagree. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 03:30 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. My wife's a teacher. |
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RayOfHope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. I'm a teacher and I think he's horrible. nt |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #22 |
37. "not worth debating with you"....arrogant statement. |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:51 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Some are so buried in neocon propaganda |
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Catshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. And further more, teachers aren't even part of the discussion. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
40. Teachers are now the "only" problem. Parents, kids not accountable. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. The man is not impressive and has a knack for not answering a question -- Educational? |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. No one who has not been a teacher should make education policy? |
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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Why is it ridiculous for a Secretary of Education to have experience educating kids? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 05:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Should accountants design treatment protocols for trauma patients in the ER? |
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Reader Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 06:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. QC, I think I love you! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 10:17 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Awww, now I'm blushing. n/t |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 08:28 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. It's still a meaningless yardstick to gauge potential success. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 10:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Is it only in education that experience and study are not qualifications, |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. So you approve of Rumsfeld's work, then? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 10:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. wrong place |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Pretty much. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. I can do something Arne Duncan can't do! |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
25. but he is one of those who applauds the firing of tuition paying, certified experience teachers |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. And, there in lies the problem! |
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Dinger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Of COurse A K & R From Me RR |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Good point! And not only never a teacher; never a public school student either! |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
20. Great analogy! |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. destruction of public education seems to have become a bipartisan cause |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. The most important thing is to support our President |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. Too late to recommend, but I'll give it a kick. |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-26-10 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
35. Arne just oozes the ignorant arrogance of a chicken hawk. Good analogy. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
36. Linda Darling Hammond didn't play basketball. |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 12:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. I thought I just read that Rogers just left the WH staff |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-27-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. I heard she was leaving, didn't know why. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-28-10 10:48 AM Response to Reply #36 |
43. She was certainly the best on his short list in November of '08. nt |
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