Comments on: Congressman announces $100,000 grant for charter school that fails Latinos and children with special needs http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/ Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics Thu, 23 May 2013 11:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: rreyes http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6945 rreyes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:50:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6945 Valid identification of issues.Thank you.

]]> By: msavage http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6885 msavage Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:07:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6885 I hear you. I think people are starting to wake up. Some of them, anyway. Sadly there are some who will never get a clue no matter how much evidence you shove in their faces. And so many others who are involved with the corruption. But I think the rest outweigh those two groups. I think there are enough people who, once they become fully aware of the magnitude of the corruption, will become outraged. Whether they will then become motivated enough to fight back is another question. I like to think that they will. I have to believe that they will. I have children–I can’t afford to give up my optimism altogether.

]]> By: Apartheid First http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6883 Apartheid First Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6883 This is so offensive. What is it with politicians and charter schools? Do politicians like to broadcast their support for increased racial and economic isolation? Do they like to put the interests of corporations above those of children? They are promoting a regime of “education” which is mind-numbingly rote and empty of all richness and poetry. Why wasn’t this money available to Milner the Hartford public school (not charter) and its neighborhood?
I want to stand at the doors and make sure they do not prevent any children from registering at the school after Oct. 1, nor force anyone out. Well, they can force Michael Sharpe out.

]]> By: Apartheid First http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6884 Apartheid First Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:03:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6884 This is so offensive. What is it with politicians and charter schools? Do politicians like to broadcast their support for increased racial and economic isolation? Do they like to put the interests of corporations above those of children? They are promoting a regime of “education” which is mind-numbingly rote and empty of all richness and poetry. Why wasn’t this money available to Milner the Hartford public school (not charter) and its neighborhood?
I want to stand at the doors and make sure they do not prevent any children from registering at the school after Oct. 1, nor force anyone out. Well, they can force Michael Sharpe out.

]]> By: George Peterman http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6880 George Peterman Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:52:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6880 Off topic, but were you listening to Faith Middleton yesterday? The “Sent from” line featured in one of her interviews yesterday.
On topic: how does one not lose his or her mind when you know with certainty how rigged this polluted system is and are aware that you have to pay taxes to fund said system? How do you get the complacent dimwits who passively eat the shit fed them by these same people and the media (Liberal? Please!!!!) owned by their cronies to realize they are ignorant accomplices in the degredation of education and society in general? It sounds like paranoia, but when you start to dig and think for yourself…. But this is preaching to the choir. Seriously, how do we get the misled masses to think for themselves and demand accountability from their government?
A few years back I met a group of middle-aged men bicycling through somewhere in the middle of Ontario (lost and looking for gas) and we got into a discussion. One of them asked me, “Why don’t you move to a real democracy?” If it weren’t for my wife’s serious dislike of winter, I’d seriously think about going north. This government – local, state and federal – is bought and owned by corporate interests and now our educational system is too. But you all know that.

]]> By: Magister http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6879 Magister Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:11:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6879 I wonder what the result wild be if an entire school district “opted out” and refused to participate in turnaround, testing etc.?

]]> By: msavage http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6877 msavage Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:19:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6877 Maybe it’s time for a mass refusal to pay local, state and federal taxes. Starve the beast until “It” decides that it wants to stop spending OUR money in a criminal manner.

]]> By: Magister http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6876 Magister Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:16:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6876 There is this legal thing called FAPE. Perhaps they should acquaint themselves with it.

]]> By: Linda174 http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6875 Linda174 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:59:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6875 Gates, Broad, Bloomberg…what’s the difference? Billionaires with lots of free time and super egos conducting a social experiment on other people’s children while setting up cronies for lucrative eduscams.

They are all connected….one commonality for most of them…their children attend private schools.

Are any of their kids or grandkids enrolled in a militarized test prep charter factory?

There are KIPPs in DC. Obama could have enrolled Sasha and Malia…..why didn’t he?

]]> By: buygoldandprosper http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/02/congressman-announces-100000-grant-for-charter-school-that-fails-latinos-and-children-with-special-needs/#comment-6874 buygoldandprosper Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:48:00 +0000 http://imnctnetwork.com/waitwhat/?p=3021#comment-6874 If Mr. Larson,Malloy or Pryor were spending their own money…well we know how much the children and schools would get!
Public money spends so easily and buys so little.
Dan Malloy has been mis-spending public money for so long and shooting from the hip for the last two years that SOMEONE in Hartford must see it by now and really should put a leash on him!
It seems like it is almost a crime…

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