BANKSTERS & EDU-GOONS – There are many George Baileys in banking, and many Mr. Chips in education, but, human nature being what it is, we have many crooks in both fields. In fact, whenever there’s a large pot of somebody else’s money, there will be a battalion of con artists trying to get to the pot at the end of their rainbow. We saw (and are still seeing) it in investing; we see it as they try to take over the postal service; we see it as they try to privatize Social Security so they can play with all of that won-der-ful money, money, money. In charter schools, these goons are at work, and they excuse their venality. Diane Ravitch likes this excuse: “After more than a million dollars went astray, the lawyer for the [charter] school asked for leniency because the founder had good intentions but he got greedy when he saw the opportunity for easy money. The judge ‘said she didn’t see a prison sentence as proper in the case because she felt the state didn’t properly anticipate the mistakes that could be made when citizens or non-lawyer tried to run charter schools.’ Good example of affluenza? What would happen to you, Bucky, if you blew through $1 million of the public’s money? dianeravitch.net/2014/09/29/ruth-conniff-the-charter-school-con-artists/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:30:48 +0000
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