Two Teachers & A Microphone...

Rapping about the oligarchy's attempt to seize control of public education in the US...  

Actually, it's more than an attempt to take over public education - it's total war on democracy and this is the penultimate battle of that war...

What Teachers Make...

Teachers are under attack in the US, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, being vilified by education "deformists" who really want to privatise the last of the public institutions and line their own pockets with the profits to be made...

Teachers are being blamed for students' performance despite the fact they have no control over what is happening in their pupils' lives outside the classroom (the rise of poverty and social dysfunction), which factors, according to research, are responsible for 86% of students' progress.

Teachers are being told they are over qualified and over paid and that they and their unions are standing in the way of things getting better...

This vilification and market-driven privatisation agenda has been on the move for the past 50 years and it has almost achieved its objective...

It's actually part of a much wider social control agenda, but that's for another posting...

Many of us - parents, community members and teachers - are doing what we can to stop this 'train-wreck' in the making...

Here's what Taylor Mali says about being a teacher and not being appreciated:

Just Another Brick In The Wall...

Are you just another brick in the wall?   Are we turning our youngsters into cogs in the machine, like so many of us feel we are?