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vi5

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1. Excellent. This is still an uphill battle

Reply to Smarmie Doofus (Original post)

Wed May 14, 2014, 07:55 AM

May 2014

I tend not to post political things to my facebook feed but any and every article about how big a scam Charter schools are, and their failures, and the speaking out against common core and education "reform" proponents gets passed on.

Education has been and will continue to be the biggest victim of our "both sides agree something must be done" mentality, especially when the "something" that has to be done involves more testing companies getting money, more privatization and on and on and on.

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Excellent. This is still an uphill battle vi5 May 2014 #1

As it applies to education, when "both sides" agree that "something must be done"... Smarmie Doofus May 2014 #2

I'm cheering too! :) but it remains to be seen ellenrr May 2014 #3