Christmas Arrived Early In Seattle...

I've already got my Christmas present,

as have many Seattle public education advocates:

"Seattle scores victory over GATES and BROAD; evicts education deformist superintendent, kicks out/dumps two education deform puppet school board directors and the deformist interim super resigns rather than having to compete for her job against other qualified applicants in an open search..."

Not a bad score for the second half of this year...

Get rid of Teach For America and MAP standardised testing and kill charters and common core curriculum before they get their feet under the table and all will be well with the world!!! 

Big grin...

Seriously though, our progress here in Seattle, education deform head honcho Bill Gates' own backyard, is giving a sense of hope to other school districts all over the country, fighting the same hostile corporate takeover of public education...
 

They think that if we can do it here, they can do it anywhere!

Thanks Santa, elves, fairies etc...

 

And the Seattle "establishment" - ie those sycophantic people hanging onto the coat tails of Bill Gates and Eli Broad - is pissy that we parents have not fallen hook, line and sinker for the lies, manipulations and half truths that have been fed to us...

They've been whining in the Seattle "media" over the past couple of weeks about us and our apparent lack of understanding and appreciation of the need for their brand of education deform...

Seattle has the most educated population in the country, in terms of the adults in the city...

And MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, if all of these educated adults have not embraced the Eli Broad and Bill Gates vision of education deform, MAYBE, JUST MAYBE corporatist education deform REALLY IS BAD FOR OUR KIDS - ALL OUR KIDS...

It requires local knowledge of the situation and the players involved to really appreciate the following contributions by parents and teachers within the community, but the visuals should be enough to get the gist:

As AuntyBROAD points out - in 2007 Big Business bought itself a school board:

 

Big Business again used big money to try to keep its school board puppets in power this year, enabling the incumbents to outspend the challengers by an average of 4-1; guess the oligarchs learned that "money can't buy me love"...

LYRICS:
Can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love

I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend
If it makes you feel all right
I'll get you anything my friend
If it makes you feel all right
Cause I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love

I'll give you all I've got to give
If you say you love me too
I may not have a lot to give
but what I've got I'll give to you
For I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want those kind of things
that money just can't buy
For I don't care too much for money
For money can't buy me love

Can't buy me love
Everybody tells me so
Can't buy me love
No, no, no, no

Say you don't need no diamond ring
And I'll be satisfied
Tell me that you want those kind of things
that money just can't buy
For I don't care too much for money
Cause money can't buy me love
Ooh, can't buy me love, love
Can't buy me love, no

Deformist Superintendent does her thing:

Parents: We're Not Stupid...

and from Seattle public school parent Arch Stanton:

 

If you want all the gory details, you can find them at the Public Disclosure Commission, at the Seattle Schools Community Forum and the Seattle Education Blog 

 

Happy Holidays To One And All

 

and Get Ready...

2012 Will Be A Wild Ride

In More Ways Than One...

 

 

Did the Cat Eat the Canary?

Momentum Growing within Seattle Public Schools Community Demanding Removal of Superintendent

The Seattle public school community has had enough - three years of expensive chaos and incompetence under Dr Goodloe Johnson and its time for her to go.

Well, its been four days since we set up our Declaration of No Confidence in Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson online, asking people to read and to sign...

http://www.petitiononline.com/S3B62010/petition.html

And word of mouth and media publicity is spreading the news...

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/95917989.html?tab=video

We're running this petition to show the District that teachers are not alone in their dissatisfaction with the Superintendent. Teaching staff at four schools have voted no confidence in the Superintendent, and we've heard at least three other schools are also formulating a no confidence resolution...

http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/

And this very serious step of taking a No Confidence vote comes after three years of letter writing, blogging, board meeting testimonies, filing law suits, attending community meetings, phone calls, other rallies, all to no avail.

We wonder how long it will take, how much more evidence the School Board needs before it has the courage and integrity to act on its' constituents' desires?

We're doing this now because the School Board is currently evaluating the Superintendent's performance, considering whether to give her a pay rise and bonus and/or to extend her contract until 2013. We parents don't want her in the District for a minute longer than absolutely necessary - in fact most of us want her fired with cause, or to have her contract bought out. At a cost of $750K, it would be cheap at twice the price, considering the multi-millions of dollars her policies and incompetence have cost us already and will continue to cost us as long as she is here.

We're rallying and presenting this Declaration to the Board at its next meeting on June 16th; it will vote on Dr Goodloe-Johnson's contract on July 7. If you want more information and/or to join us, please call me on 206 679 1738. If you haven't read and signed the Declaration yet, please do...

And no, we do not want privatization and charters and more high stakes standardized testing in our city... We want COMPASSIONATE, humane, common-sense, grass roots change, easy to implement, taking time and honoring each student as a unique individual with unique talents, skills and needs...

If the Everett School District can do it, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2012063202_danny09.html so can Seattle....

Namaste

Sahila ChangeBringer

member, Seattle Shadow School Board

tel: 206 679 1738

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