joann fonseca
Affection Or Animosity For Maggie’s Methods?
I was saddened to hear that the Iron Lady died after suffering a stroke at age 87. Margaret Thatcher truly transformed Britain. However, she was also a union buster. I bet she would have supported the corporate ways of education had she been around today! She ushered in an era of greed that kicked the weak out [...]
When Teachers Are First Responders
As a retired teacher of over 30+ years, I have participated in many fire drills, lock downs, “duck and cover” and other safety maneuvers in making sure our children stay safe while they are in school. Our school in Warwick even had a mock airplane crash drill with the help of the police and fire [...]
Be Wary of Those Praising ‘Won’t Back Down’
“Won’t Back Down” tells the story of a single mother and a teacher who take on a bad principal and villainous teacher union in an attempt to improve a failing public school. The problem with the plot is that the story does not portray the truth. For example, a movie viewer is led to believe [...]
Truth About Anti-Union Movie ‘Won’t Back Down’
The anti-teachers’ union movie “Won’t Back Down” will soon come to Rhode Island pushing the concept of parent trigger laws, where 51% of parents can close down a public school. “Won’t Back Down,” Diane Ravitch put it, “is a movie celebrating the ALEC-inspired ‘parent trigger, encouraging the public to think that parents should seize control [...]
Not About the Money in Chicago Teacher’s Strike
“Chicago isn’t seeing its teachers as greedy. They’re seeing them as a vanguard in the struggle against what might happen to the rest of the middle class next if they don’t speak up,” according to Alternet. Since Rahm Emanuel’s election in the spring of 2011, Chicago’s teachers have been marginalized by a mayor obsessed with [...]
Support Chicago Teachers: Wear Red for ED Monday
Let me tell you about Rahm Emanuel. He used to be Obama’s chief of staff. Have you ever heard him talk? Well, make sure your children are not around when you do, since he is crude and foul mouthed with every other word F….. Not really professional for the President’s Chief of Staff, don’t you [...]
The Raimondo-Michael Nutter Connection
I know this past week end Rhode Islanders were busy saying good bye to summer. Some shut down their beach houses for the last time while others prepare their children for pre-K, elementary and high school and still others made the trip to return their teens to college. So it is quite understandable that many [...]
Chris Christie’s Mom Didn’t Teach Him Enough
Chris Christie of New Jersey spoke last night at the RNC. I am not sure whose agenda he was pushing … his own or Mitt Romney’s. Interesting that after I turned off the RNC speech made by Gov. Christie, I should see this in today’s Dr Diane Ravitch’s blog: I will protect your pensions. Nothing about your [...]
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