>"-- the braindead, Reagan-style anecdotes which repackage viciousness
>as common sense, the rebranding of cruelty as competitiveness."
Here's Rhee herself telling a story of how she once taped students mouths shut with masking tape to keep them quiet. Later the kids were taking the tape off and some were bleeding. Rhee explains it away with "I forgot to tell them to lick their lips beforehand."
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