tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post2514921988639334647..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: For Mayor - Not Ron SimsMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-4446888863142742902013-03-15T09:54:05.208-07:002013-03-15T09:54:05.208-07:00Jack Whelan,
Well said.
Bloomberg, Emanuel? If w...Jack Whelan,<br />Well said.<br /><br />Bloomberg, Emanuel? If we're talking about wrecking schools, don't leave out Godzilla as a role model. <br /><br />-nonamenocreditAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-49997662687936260582013-03-15T09:35:46.309-07:002013-03-15T09:35:46.309-07:00Bravo, Jack. I agree.
I honestly think in 10 yea...Bravo, Jack. I agree.<br /><br />I honestly think in 10 years a lot of ed reform will have collapsed under its own weight and we will look around and say, "Why did we do this?" And start to rebuild.Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-56232758182751762013-03-15T08:46:46.004-07:002013-03-15T08:46:46.004-07:00Every politician presents him or herself as an age...Every politician presents him or herself as an agent for change, but we're living in a time when almost everything we hear from mainstream politicians about the kind of changes they want to effect in education are terribly wrongheaded and destructive. The reason is simple: Politicians want to succeed, and they don't think they can without the help of people who have a lot of money.<br /><br />And I'm trying, but I can't think of one influential wealthy or political elite who is working in education who has it right or even kind of right. Maybe Jerry Brown in CA. So when the consensus about reform is so universally and consistently wrong among the wealthy and powerful, it's like a cult, and the politicians realize that they have to join it if they want to be taken seriously and to succeed. Why would they take anybody else seriously. I mean seriously. <br /><br />These people need an intervention, but there's no one powerful enough on the scene today give it. A broad-based, energized people's movement might be one way to do it, because certainly listening to sensible counterarguments from anti-reformers has no effect. Ambitious politicians who gravitate to the cult of wealth and power instinctively, unconsciously understand the language of wealth and power. The language of good sense is not nearly as appealing. <br /><br />So in the meanwhile those of us who have no interest in joining that cult do what we can do, which really amounts to little more than boarding up the windows and waiting for the storm to pass. And once it passes, for eventually it will, people of good sense can come out into the open to clean up the mess and to start rebuilding.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10943001045762085288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-17997732053334288762013-03-14T16:22:28.974-07:002013-03-14T16:22:28.974-07:00Don't believe political people when they say t...Don't believe political people when they say they are not going to run and then talk about what they would do if they did.joannanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-84034748507905882482013-03-14T14:29:37.421-07:002013-03-14T14:29:37.421-07:00OK. Thanks for posting the SE ED announcement.OK. Thanks for posting the SE ED announcement.mirmac1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10183460709639638172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-9785875424525297252013-03-14T13:21:46.365-07:002013-03-14T13:21:46.365-07:00We'll have Open Thread tomorrow so keep those ...We'll have Open Thread tomorrow so keep those for then. Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12588239576000641336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-87216743040246771572013-03-14T12:18:36.082-07:002013-03-14T12:18:36.082-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.mirmac1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10183460709639638172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-26155743232339060752013-03-14T10:48:43.956-07:002013-03-14T10:48:43.956-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.mirmac1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10183460709639638172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-2747780922415417372013-03-14T10:27:17.454-07:002013-03-14T10:27:17.454-07:00Universal foreign language learning is pretty easy...Universal foreign language learning is pretty easy from a policy perspective. "All" it takes is another hour or so of class time from K-12. I'd love that, so my kids don't have to choose between art/music and foreign language in middle and high school. Funding for that extra hour? I'm not holding my breath. Eric Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-11423608908419675292013-03-14T09:58:47.389-07:002013-03-14T09:58:47.389-07:00I don't think Sims' current polling has mu...I don't think Sims' current polling has much to do with his positions on education. In fact, I doubt many of us knew his positions until this interview. And if he holds up Mayor for Life Because I Can Afford It Bloomberg and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-real-problem-with-rahms-school-reforms-in-chicago/2012/09/11/c77c3cc4-fba4-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_blog.html" rel="nofollow">Rahm Corporate Ed Reform Emanuel</a> as his role models, then I'm quite sure his poll numbers would go down as more people knew about his support of such questionable 'leadership' and his apparently business-skewed views on public education. (Though he's right about opposing the MAP test.)suep.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17281578510716234624noreply@blogger.com