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Coyotl

(15,262 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 12:43 PM Jan 2013

The Education of Michelle Rhee | FRONTLINE | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education-of-michelle-rhee/

VIDEO: FRONTLINE examines the legacy of one of America’s most admired & reviled school reformers.

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The Education of Michelle Rhee | FRONTLINE | PBS (Original Post) Coyotl Jan 2013 OP

That was good! I've never seen more people to hate.... chaska Jan 2013 #1

Yes you can fix public education. Coyotl Jan 2013 #2

Yeah, good luck with that. chaska Jan 2013 #3

Not with that attitude, to be sure Coyotl Jan 2013 #4

chaska

(6,794 posts)

1. That was good! I've never seen more people to hate....

Reply to Coyotl (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 02:54 PM

Jan 2013

in a single broadcast. I hated pretty much everybody involved. Great fun!

There is no fixing public education. Just like everything else in our society, public ed is a machine and people are not.

Not to mention the even bigger problem that you can't separate ed- related problems from societal problems. If you live in a crumbling, dying empire, where nothing works, what would possibly make you think your schools can succeed?