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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Another anti-teacher film backed by

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Another anti-teacher film backed by:


Another anti-teacher film backed by

Won't Back Down
Major studio films with celebrity stars have become the latest weapon of choice in the war against teachers and public education. It all began with Waiting for Superman and will be joined in September by Won't Back Down, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a parent and Viola Davis as a teacher who work together to organize support for a petition to overhaul the school and resuscitate it academically. The more than obvious parallel here is with the so-called Parent Trigger scheme which enables a group of petitioning-signing parents to turn a public school over