Just how far, to what lengths....of should I ask, to what depths will Liberals sink in their efforts to attack 'success'?
Here....to set the stage, the explanation for the Left's hatred of capitalism and the free market, e.g., Wal-Mart: it is a system which produces winners and losers, a painful fact that the Left would rather not see.
Add the current debate over charter schools and vouchers, clearly more successful than public schools....and you have the explanation for the following:
1. ".... this past weekends front-page news article in the New York Times... about the Walton Family Foundation and what the Times called its many tentacles..
2. ... the article goes on to explain that the foundation, backed by members of the family that founded Walmart, has helped fuel some of the fastest growing, and most divisive, trends in public education including teacher evaluations based on student test scores and publicly funded vouchers for students to attend private schools.
3. The article reports, for example, that Waltons Mr. Sternberg, who started his career in Teach for America and founded the Bronx Lab School, a public school in New York City, does not apologize for Waltons commitment to charter schools and vouchers.
4. Why would he apologize? Why should he be expected to apologize? Hes helping to make schools better. .... If anyone should apologize here, it is the Times, for suggesting that an apology is in order.
5. .... in this case it taps in to a broader and highly significant political trend, which is the tendency by the left to blame spending by right-of-center or free-market-oriented billionaires for just about every twist and turn in the public policy debate.
6. ... Charles and David Koch are imagined as puppeteers behind the Tea Party or the Keystone pipeline, or Sheldon Adelson is the reason for pro-Israel sentiment in the Republican Party.
Never mind that there are left-wing billionaires like George Soros or Thomas Steyer, not to mention labor unions, spending large sums,...
7. If parents were perfectly satisfied with regular public schools, the charter and voucher movements would face a tougher battle than they already do...havent made school vouchers widely available other than in a few unusual and narrow cases of a failing school, a poor family or special-needs student, and a rare state or local government that has managed to pass a voucher law over teachers union opposition.
8. For a sense of what a non-Walton public school is like, one need look no further than P.S. 111, the Adolph S. Ochs School in Manhattan. It is a taxpayer funded New York City public school named after the patriarch of the family that controls the New York Times. Over the years the New York Times Company and its foundation have been involved with the school .... suggesting a certain hypocrisy of the Times in objecting to the Walton familys efforts.
9. The Times tentacles on the Adolph Ochs school may not have been divisive, but neither have they been particularly successful; the school earned a grade of D for its school environment in its most recent evaluation from the city, and the citys quality reviewobserves the principal acknowledges that teachers have not received written feedback this year.
a. Only 19% of the schools sixth graders pass the state English test and only 24% of the schools fifth graders pass the state math test.
10. If the Walton Foundation can provide a voucher or charter school option to escape this status quo, perhaps the Times should thank the Waltons rather than imply that an apology is in order."
Waltons Derided by N.Y. Times As Its Own School Charity Fails - The New York Sun
As Winston Churchill observed:
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
For the Liberal NYTimes, the equal sharing of non-education is a virtue.
Here....to set the stage, the explanation for the Left's hatred of capitalism and the free market, e.g., Wal-Mart: it is a system which produces winners and losers, a painful fact that the Left would rather not see.
Add the current debate over charter schools and vouchers, clearly more successful than public schools....and you have the explanation for the following:
1. ".... this past weekends front-page news article in the New York Times... about the Walton Family Foundation and what the Times called its many tentacles..
2. ... the article goes on to explain that the foundation, backed by members of the family that founded Walmart, has helped fuel some of the fastest growing, and most divisive, trends in public education including teacher evaluations based on student test scores and publicly funded vouchers for students to attend private schools.
3. The article reports, for example, that Waltons Mr. Sternberg, who started his career in Teach for America and founded the Bronx Lab School, a public school in New York City, does not apologize for Waltons commitment to charter schools and vouchers.
4. Why would he apologize? Why should he be expected to apologize? Hes helping to make schools better. .... If anyone should apologize here, it is the Times, for suggesting that an apology is in order.
5. .... in this case it taps in to a broader and highly significant political trend, which is the tendency by the left to blame spending by right-of-center or free-market-oriented billionaires for just about every twist and turn in the public policy debate.
6. ... Charles and David Koch are imagined as puppeteers behind the Tea Party or the Keystone pipeline, or Sheldon Adelson is the reason for pro-Israel sentiment in the Republican Party.
Never mind that there are left-wing billionaires like George Soros or Thomas Steyer, not to mention labor unions, spending large sums,...
7. If parents were perfectly satisfied with regular public schools, the charter and voucher movements would face a tougher battle than they already do...havent made school vouchers widely available other than in a few unusual and narrow cases of a failing school, a poor family or special-needs student, and a rare state or local government that has managed to pass a voucher law over teachers union opposition.
8. For a sense of what a non-Walton public school is like, one need look no further than P.S. 111, the Adolph S. Ochs School in Manhattan. It is a taxpayer funded New York City public school named after the patriarch of the family that controls the New York Times. Over the years the New York Times Company and its foundation have been involved with the school .... suggesting a certain hypocrisy of the Times in objecting to the Walton familys efforts.
9. The Times tentacles on the Adolph Ochs school may not have been divisive, but neither have they been particularly successful; the school earned a grade of D for its school environment in its most recent evaluation from the city, and the citys quality reviewobserves the principal acknowledges that teachers have not received written feedback this year.
a. Only 19% of the schools sixth graders pass the state English test and only 24% of the schools fifth graders pass the state math test.
10. If the Walton Foundation can provide a voucher or charter school option to escape this status quo, perhaps the Times should thank the Waltons rather than imply that an apology is in order."
Waltons Derided by N.Y. Times As Its Own School Charity Fails - The New York Sun
As Winston Churchill observed:
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
For the Liberal NYTimes, the equal sharing of non-education is a virtue.
