Here’s a pathetic example of what passes for policy debate
on education in Congress:
On Feb. 11 Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) offered his view of how
to fund education in America.
“Socrates trained Plato in on a rock and then Plato trained
in Aristotle roughly speaking on a rock. So, huge funding is not necessary to
achieve the greatest minds and the greatest intellects in history…”
He urged that we should “…get private sector folks into
every single one of our schools, get the CEOs in the schools and move beyond
this just narrow policy debate and really have a revolution.”
Think about the CEOs you know. Think about all the CEOs with
excellent track records and keen insights on how to educate our kids. I don’t
want CEOs running our schools, do you?
Think about all the successes and failures in the “private
sector” in the last half dozen years, starting with the 2008 financial meltdown.
I don’t want the private business sector running our schools, do you?
Good education isn’t about rocks.
And, by the way, if the Republicans ever nominate Rep. Brat
to be Secretary of Education, you can guess who WILL be moving to New Zealand.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2015
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