POSTSCRIPT TO UPDATE: When Life Imitates Art - Or Which Came First...

... The Chicken Or The Egg?

Ever wonder where the ridiculous "education reform" ideas currently sweeping the US, UK and Australia, come from?

Maybe the Billionaire Bullies' Club and the rest of the oligarchy who control US Education Secretary Arne Duncan got their ideas from Dolores Umbridge...

Watch and listen to Dolores and her views on education of young wizards... in the hall scene and again in her classroom... spooky!!!

more parallels with the US education deform agenda..... seriously folks - the analogy is quite stunning really...

Is Dolores' alter ego Michelle Rhee???

Dolores tortures Harry with a magic pencil that tattoos "I must not tell lies" on his hand, while (former Washington DC Schools' Chancellor and now billionaire-bully-darling-deformist-at-large) Michelle has admitted to taping her kindergarten students' mouths shut with masking tape, during her short stint as a Teach For America recruit in Baltimore...

Michelle Rhee abused her students

Listen to her laughing during her public 'confession' here:

Michelle Rhee's 'best practice' behaviour management techniques

And there are some other concerns about Ms Rhee's suitability to help bring in education "change" in this country...

Ms Rhee recently acquired a new husband - Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson...

According to a congressional report, Mr Johnson allegedly indulged in sexual activity with under-age girls and then offered public funds to one of them to keep her quiet... 

It's rather hypocritical of Ms Rhee to have fired Washington DC teachers on false allegations of child abuse and child sex abuse,

Michelle fires hundreds of teachers, implying many were abusers

and then to 'confess' to her own abuse of children, and to decide to 'stand by her man'...

For details on her marital partner's "indiscretions" and Ms Rhee's part in the events, go here:

Michelle rushes to defend fiance accused of under-age sex and misappropriation of funds

Ms Rhee has two young daughters from her first marriage.    


Mr Johnson's 'indiscretions' occurred before Ms Rhee married him and yet she still went ahead with the union, albeit a year later than originally intended.


I did mention to her that, as a fellow mother, I wouldn't trust someone who's allegedly had sex with under-age girls near my vulnerable girl children...

I asked her how she sleeps at night with the worry, I wonder?

I also wrote that, frankly, someone who has these attitudes to her own childrens' safety is not fit to make education policy for anyone else's children... 

I have not had a response from her as yet...

Michelle's Facebook Page for her education deform lobby organisation Students First

POSTSCRIPT SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2011:

According to Michelle herself, and to media reports...

Michelle has sent her two girls to live with their father (Kevin Huffman, formerly VP of research and development for Teach for America, now Tennessee schools' Education Commissioner)... 

Michelle and Kevin were married a couple of weeks ago, in Tennessee, with 40 guests attending...

You can read more of the grubby story here:

Students - Michelle Rhee's Really Not That Into You

and here:

Rhee and Johnson Keep Wedding Under Radar