Corporate Reform Action Pack!

While I try to find the proper (and markedly less snarky) words to fully address what I perceive to be the major shortcomings of Klein, Rhee & co's recent "manifesto", please enjoy this commercial for the kind of school reform they champion. By turning a deaf ear to the people they should be serving, and applying the most behaviorist, outdated ideals of business to schools, they're continuing the already devastating trend toward conformity and instability in schools.

For more serious, nuanced analyses of our current school reform climate, and first-person accounts of what goes on in so-called "failing schools", visit http://failingschools.wordpress.com. You can also follow me @TeacherSabrina on Twitter.

My thanks to the Real Reformers of the Grassroots Education Movement NYC for the protest footage! If you think America's kids deserve better than gimmicks and CRAP, be sure to check them out at http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com or http://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• education
• reform
• corporate
• schools
• teachers
• tests
• high-stakes
• testing
• standardization
• standardized
• double-speak

[TeacherSabrinaFSP]

Thanks for the positive feedback! I hope to have more to share with you soon.

[iamcompucomp]

This is brilliant. You need to get that Orwell phone patented. I want one!

[knave2]

If you haven't seen the movie DUNE I suggest you watch the Paul Atreides speech to the Fremen before the training segment. This is how the whole education system could be quickly reconstructed. All that is needed is the political will off iron achieve the result.

[rdarrah]

Great work! Your blog posts are always intelligent and this was fantastic.

[Radiotomb]

a SoundBite Converter!? Oh, so THATS what Bush used to stay in office for 8 years. I knew there was a simple explanation for it!

Brilliant job, by the way. Spot on! 

[JournalistJohnson]

i had madflo for a teecher when i was akid an know im stupid and cant get no job.

[WurstsideWarlord]

Sabrina is a genius!!! She has managed to eviscerate the efforts of Arne, Michelle, Oprah, Billy G, Geoff Canada, and the rest of their ilk with one low-budget video!!! A solitary underpaid teacher has single-handedly burst the balloon of the billionaire know-it-all club. This video sums up the feelings of virtually every CPS teacher I know. Humor, intelligence, charisma, and truth go a long way. Every teacher in the U.S. needs to see this. More videos please...

[tourommunch]

This is amazing! The "Sound Bite Converter" is brilliant!!

[MrWarmi]

very, very well done- you are getting it across

[Sfireblue]

Sabrina, you are brilliant! I love your sound bite converter, the Orwellophone 1984!