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Sunday, May 11, 2014

5-11-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:



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Celia Oyler. It’s thrilling to see teachers standing up.
Barbara Madeloni and Dave Madeloni at Hynes Convention Center, Boston. - Celia Oyler is a Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University Barbara Madeloni has a clear analysis of the relationship between democracy and public schooling. I always feel invigorated while listening to her that we can win this war against predatory school deform. It’s thrilling to see teachers standing up for not on


Chicago neighborhood schools picnic.
Pawel Dzienkowski. Madeloni articulated the pure outrage that many of us in the trenches feel.
Fred, Perhaps more than anything else, Madeloni articulated the pure outrage that many of us in the trenches feel over the destruction and intentional starvation of the public education model being perpetrated by Government and Corporate America to facilitate the handover of our kid’s and democracy’s futures to for-profit entities who answer only to share holders. The game is rigged by politician

Pablophil. A Madeloni earthquake hits Massachusetts.
- Pablophil is a retired Massachusetts teacher and MTA union member. I attended the Annual Meeting, perhaps my 31st or 32nd. The current President has termed out, and there was widespread feeling – obviously- that the leadership has been more in a retreat (in terms of teacher empowerment and teacher benefits) than a leadership that is improving the lot of teachers. The leaving President overtly s


Mother’s Day.
Mom could not be ambivalent about anything. Her two favorite colors were black and white. Mom had little patience for shades of gray. She hated the things she hated. She loved the things she loved. She loved my father for reasons I still don’t entirely understand. She loved her women friends who loved her in return. Especially when her cancer arrived. She hated the cancer. They shared their love



5-10-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherKeeping retirement weird. Appreciation.To wrap up this year’s Teacher Appreciation Week I went up to Park Ridge to have lunch with some of my best teacher pals. The Friday lunch group that I was a member of for years has been deci