ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the privatization
of public education.
ALEC legislators and ALEC are always pushing the fallacy
that for-profit educational opportunities are superior to public education.
ALEC legislators are always manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".
Well – time and time again this ALEC delusion is proving to
be wrong.
Another example
of how ALEC’s
policies are hurting American’s children.
ALEC legislators and ALEC profit sector members are EXPERIMENTING on our children.
And the ALEC free-market experiments are failing.
ALEC legislation is public – private partnership, privatization
of public service failure – policy that harms our children - failure pushed by the
American Legislative Exchange Council at their many private and secretive meetings.
ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".
Experimenting on our children - in the name of the "free market"
AT the expense of our children's education!!!!!
(My emphasis throughout)
At the center of the controversy is the Tennessee Virtual
Academy -- a for-profit, online public school that Republican lawmakers touted
as a way to improve education in Tennessee. Two years ago, state lawmakers
voted to let K12 Inc. open the school, using millions of taxpayer dollars.
At the center of the controversy is the fact that the pro-corporate
American Legislative Exchange Council allows private education companies to
meet secretly, behind closed doors with state legislators.
At the center of the controversy is private education companies writing
legislation to push virtual schools that they distribute at ALEC meetings, vote
on at ALEC meetings and then distribute to state legislatures – through ALEC
legislators.
At the center of the controversy is that Tennessee ALEC
members brought back the ALEC Virtual Public Act and enacted it in the state of
Tennessee
Compare them - read them and weep - corporate control of our state legislatures.
ALEC copy and paste legislation taken to the state of Tennessee
and destroying the education of 3,200 students.
ALEC copy and paste legislation that has been introduced in Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, Florida, Texas and many, many more.
ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".
The email -- labeled "important -- was written in
December by the Tennessee Virtual Academy's vice principal to middle school
teachers.
"After ... looking at so many failing grades, we
need to make some changes before the holidays," the email begins.
Among the changes: Each teacher "needs to take out
the October and September progress [reports]; delete it so that all that is
showing is November progress."
"It just says take that out. To me, this appears
like it's grade fixing."
No - it's cheating. Cheating the students out of a decent education.
Teaching out children to cheat through the cheating behavior of a corporation.
But does that surprise me hell no
ALEC reinforces cheating every time an ALEC legislator plagiarizes ALEC "model legislation" and introduces it in their state "as their own". (Plagiarizing = cheating = liars)
K12 officials refused to sit down to answer our question
Tell them you will talk with them behind closed doors in
a secret meeting at a posh resort (like ALEC does) and they will probably have
a meeting with you.
There is also a bill up in a House subcommittee Tuesday
that would essentially shut it down.
An ALEC experiment.
ALEC legislators manipulating the education market - to favor ALEC corporate members - through the use of ALEC "model legislation".
Do no harm to the children.
How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills
they lost?
How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills
they never learned?
AND this experimental failure on our children is not limited to Tennessee!!!
It is happening repeatedly across the United States.
A Dec. 16, 2012 investigative piece in The Republican
(Springfield) and Masslive.com reported that
students in the K12-run online school
ranked second
lowest in the state on students’ progress
in the MCAS
math and English exams.
They also post
an unusually high attrition rate.
Ranked second lowest in math.
Ranked second lowest in English.
... unusually high
attrition rate
Do no harm to the children!!!
How long will it take for those kids to regain the skills
they lost?
How long will it take for those kids to recoup the skills
they never learned?
Another ALEC for profit – privatization scheme – that
harms our children, that harms the future of our nation, by producing a flawed
education process; based on spurious ALEC free-market arguments.
Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to
support for-profit failures.
Massachusetts and Tennessee tax dollars being used to
bankrupt children's educational potential.
ALEC “model legislation” fails AGAIN.
ALEC legislators manipulating the education market
- to favor ALEC corporate members
- through the use of ALEC "model legislation".
