[lbo-talk] ravitch talks to jon stewart

J Cullen jcullen at austin.rr.com
Fri Mar 4 17:13:00 PST 2011


Stewart's mom was (and I think he said she still is) a public school teacher and he appeared to be rightfully offended by the teacher bashing.


>The only thing I remember along these lines is his saying that charter
>schools "aren't the problem," so he did seem to want to argue that while
>they aren't the solution, they aren't the problem, whereas I get the
>impression from Ravitch that she thinks they are very much a part of the
>problem, insofar as they distract us from solving the genuine problems.
>
>But in general I got the feeling that he is actually pretty solid on (a)
>teachers getting a bad rap, and (b) teacher unions getting a bad rap. I may
>watch it again later, though, and see if I think differently.
>
>And here's the link, for anyone intereted:
>http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/diane-ravitch
>
>On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it seemed to me Stewart was more resistant than I expected... made me
>> wonder
>> if he's sending his kids to a charter school.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I would link, but it's just aired and I think they wait until it airs on
>> > the
>> > west coast to post it?
>> >
>> > Anyway, nothing earth-shattering to this crowd, but still a good
>> interview.
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