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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Ed Notes Online: Acievement First Concentration Camp Policies Supported by Gates Foundation

Ed Notes Online: Acievement First Concentration Camp Policies Supported by Gates Foundation:

Acievement First Concentration Camp Policies Supported by Gates Foundation

Actually, I would describe Achievement First more as a southern plantation circa 1850. But no one should be surprised that the Gates Foundation is based on a southern plantation mentality. I love it that they are so willing to connect themselves to Achievement First which exposes what Gates is all about. Really think about the AF name. "Achievement" before even the welfare of the child. But "achievement' really means achieving wealth for the gang running the operation.

In the final stages of making our film response to Gates supported "Waiting for Superman' we had the chance to interview former Achievement First parents. Leonie and I expected to do a quick 15 minute interview but instead were riveted for almost 2 hours of horror stories. A few days later I interviewed our pal Khem Irby (who has left us to cause trouble for ed deformers down in North Carolina). We only used a few minutes in the film but you can see all the interviews below. The video we shot was used by activist groups opposing AF in Rhode Island to defeat some of their plans to take over a swath of schools in Providence. (I'm posting links at the bottom of this post -- really watch some of these interviews and get your rage up.)

Pat Dobosz, a Brooklyn pre-k teacher in Williamsburg writes:
Here is an article about this despicable place. We had an AF charter at my school for about four years.
State education board to review Achievement First's discipline policies | The CT Mirror

This article by Sarah Darer really gets into the weeds of the Gates/AF/TFA connection. Oh, and TFA also has that southern pre-Civil War mentality too.
 
A Window Into Gates Foundation Dystopia 
http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/a_window_into_the_bill_and_melinda_gates_foundation_dystopia/#.UbwIGekKDW4.facebook
by Sarah Darer Littman | Jun 13, 2013



Sarah Darer Littman
In 1948, sociologist Robert K.Merton coined the phrase “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.” “The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which 


WAGPOPS: Walcott at District 14 Town Hall Monday June 17, 6PM

Cathie Black once came and got an interesting reception. I will be there to tape the festivities.

Williamsburg and Greenpoint Parents for Our Public Schools (WAGPOPS)


Upset about the cuts to our district school? 

COME ON MONDAY, JUNE 17TH, to our TOWN HALL!
Let your voices be heard!

The District 14 Community Education Council
is hosting a Town Hall with Chancellor Dennis Walcott

June 17, 2013
6:00 PM-7PM
P.S. 250 George H. Lindsay
108 Montrose Ave, Auditorium
Brooklyn, NY 11206