30-12-2021, 10:57 AM
"Charter schools
The secretary of education wants teacher’s salaries to be based on their performance as instructors & determined by the exam results of their students. This proposed method would reduce teachers to pedagogical assembly line workers whose wage is set by the amount of widgets created rather than in the craftsmanship it takes to produce an educated citizen. Govt’s belief that competition by schools for the best students & best teachers will improve our overall education system is not only erroneous, but would prove lethal to our state run schools. All it will encourage is the flight of our best human capital to private institutions.
unemployment
It was crass, inhumane & malicious of this govt to show no mercy to the unemployed, the disabled, & the disadvantaged during the financial crisis. That it continues to behave like a bully to those down on their luck makes me think the govt’s cruelty is deliberate. They want to change society to reflect only the interest of our corporations & the 10 percent of the population who profit from inordinately from a system that chastises people, through lack of opportunity, for being poor or ordinary workers.
Favoring businesses
In the name of efficiency, govts have delegated the shape & scope of 21st century society to corporations, through privatization schemes in schooling, medicine & the delivery of social services. Where once govt spent enormous amounts on maintaining our communities, our hospitals & urban & rural landscapes, they now advance it to companies in the form of subsidies, tax forgiveness, or just good old fashioned bailouts.
Economists call it synergy, but I think its just welfare for the big lads of commerce.
Yet this social & financial inversion, where wealthy enterprises were shored up with govt money that could have been spent on affordable housing, infrastructure maintenance, school & hospital budgets, services to pensioners & job training for the unemployed, persisted throughout the recession to other corporate sectors of our economy."
Harry’s last stand; how the world my generation built is falling down & what we can do to save it, Harry Leslie Smith.
The secretary of education wants teacher’s salaries to be based on their performance as instructors & determined by the exam results of their students. This proposed method would reduce teachers to pedagogical assembly line workers whose wage is set by the amount of widgets created rather than in the craftsmanship it takes to produce an educated citizen. Govt’s belief that competition by schools for the best students & best teachers will improve our overall education system is not only erroneous, but would prove lethal to our state run schools. All it will encourage is the flight of our best human capital to private institutions.
unemployment
It was crass, inhumane & malicious of this govt to show no mercy to the unemployed, the disabled, & the disadvantaged during the financial crisis. That it continues to behave like a bully to those down on their luck makes me think the govt’s cruelty is deliberate. They want to change society to reflect only the interest of our corporations & the 10 percent of the population who profit from inordinately from a system that chastises people, through lack of opportunity, for being poor or ordinary workers.
Favoring businesses
In the name of efficiency, govts have delegated the shape & scope of 21st century society to corporations, through privatization schemes in schooling, medicine & the delivery of social services. Where once govt spent enormous amounts on maintaining our communities, our hospitals & urban & rural landscapes, they now advance it to companies in the form of subsidies, tax forgiveness, or just good old fashioned bailouts.
Economists call it synergy, but I think its just welfare for the big lads of commerce.
Yet this social & financial inversion, where wealthy enterprises were shored up with govt money that could have been spent on affordable housing, infrastructure maintenance, school & hospital budgets, services to pensioners & job training for the unemployed, persisted throughout the recession to other corporate sectors of our economy."
Harry’s last stand; how the world my generation built is falling down & what we can do to save it, Harry Leslie Smith.
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