New Orleans is now the 1st city in the US without a public school as the Orleans Parish School Board closed the last public school in a meeting room filled with protesting parents, students, alumni and teachers. The board disregarded the protesters. They were fighting for the restoration of real skills learning, and the values that Reformers don’t understand: tradition, community, history, relations between families and schools, a spirit of connectedness that binds past to present!Why do parents and students fight for schools that have been labeled “failing” by authorities? “Ghosts in the Schoolyard,” about Rahm Emanuel’s brutal closure of 50 public schools in a single day, offers a clue to the demolition of the Institutions of American Public Education.
At dianeravitch.net
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