There's something to be said for Kitchen Table Wisdom - you know, like in the old days when people sat around the kitchen table after a meal and talked about life, the universe and the meaning of it all - as well as the gossip doing the rounds in town...

Well, that's what this place is - a place to share common wisdom, thoughts and feelings about things important and unimportant, that bring us joy, laughter and happiness and that trouble, sadden, confuse and anger us ...

What I write here is what's 'real' for me. It won't always be PC or 'nice'. We're missing out on true connection and chances to grow and change because there's too little authenticity, too little honesty, too much holding back what we really feel and mean.

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Namaste

(the Divine in me, recognises and honours the Divine in you)

Sahila




Friday, November 12, 2010

When Neutrality Equals Complicity

 
I was challenged on the Save Seattle Schools blog (link on the sidebar) a couple of days ago, as to whether I ever have a neutral gear?


And the answer is: "No, I don't have a 'neutral' gear when it comes to  education 'deform' and all the many aliases and disguises it comes under/uses to attempt to slink under the wire"...

In my opinion, it's immoral and obscene... and completely undemocratic... half a dozen uber rich people have decided what public education should look like and they're going around using their money and influence to ensure they get it to be that way (and to make sure they and their friends make mountains of money in the process)... and we and our kids are mere pawns...

And here in Seattle it's being pushed through regardless of process or law...

I don't think I have ever encountered anything more arrogant and completely disrespectful in my life...

And this is not about creating a great education system that benefits all kids... in fact, it's not about the kids at all...

It's about oligarchy, it's about privatising the last of the public institutions in this country, it's about exercising complete power and control, it's abusive, it's nothing more than a nasty,  horrible, disgusting example of domestic violence, played out in the societal and economic arena...

And one of the side benefits for those pushing the deform agenda is all the public taxpayer money there is to be siphoned off into their own back pockets...

So I do what I do to highlight where individuals, groups and institutions come from and what their agenda really is, because it seems to me that many people in this town (and country) are not informed...

And if they are, they seem not to get the ramifications of what they support, in the broader picture... or they're sitting in total denial, with their fingers in their ears humming/singing "I can't hear you"... and I can't/won't shut up while that's going on...


There are groups all over this country fighting this deform agenda...

Here's a sample:
 
Parents Across America
Parents and Kids Against Standardised Testing
Support Our Schools
Uniting for Kids
SOS Million Teacher March
Fair Testing
Stop RTTT
Schools Matter
NYC Public School Parents


All acknowledge what is really going on...

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