[lbo-talk] The rape of education continues

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 1 15:27:05 PDT 2011


On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> What I would like to see is research on what various teachers and local unions are doing or not doing in response to this attempt to pauperize one more sector of the working class. How long will it take for serious opposition to this attack to develop? What kinds of defensive tactics have already appeared anywhere? And so forth. For several decades all we've been able to do is report on and verbally blast each new horror. But there are signs of resistance appearing; the east may be red. Let's look for those signs and report on them.

I don't think the news is good. The NEA was the first union to endorse Obama's re-election. A friend who works for a teacher's union paper in a high-density liberal state says they're all demoralized and basically giving up. Sorry.

Doug



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