Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> ... the myriad things wrong with it, such as what are finger
> tip length jackets going to remedy and the ridiculousness of the curriculum
> etc. but as it's probably a joke I don't see the point.
I didn't read it very closely -- but various efforts to "reform" the schools are afoot in the world, and they are perhaps even more vicious than efforts to "reform" welfare, social security, etc. etc. And such efforts will take myriad different concrete forms, such as this petition, and will often mix minimally sensible or even attractive things with the viciousness, as I believe this petition does. So it's probably not quite a joke, and leftists do need to give thought to how to resist school reform.
And I do mean, resist, period. Attempts to channel it in progressives directions will be as futile as Chris Burford's babble of reforming international finance. No matter how bad schools are now from a progressive viewpoint, any changes at present will be for the worse.
Carrol