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The article contains the passages from the book with each of the 8 attacks, but I'm omitting for brevity.
1. Longer School Days Help Teachers Encourage "Teen Sexual Activity."
Beck and Olson seem convinced that teachers are not only "promot[ing] sexual activity among children," but would use longer school days to "encourage teen sexual activity," among other radical ideas (emphasis added)
3. Teachers Don't Need Tenure Because "Parents Will Hold [Principals] Accountable."
Chapter 6 asserts that teachers don't need tenure because if a good teacher is fired, parents will take care of that:
5. "Radical Educators" Use Civil Rights To "Further Their Marxist Agenda."
Continuing on the "Marxism" train, Chapter 9 opens with the allegation that "America's historic civil rights movement is being hijacked by radical educators" who use "racial inequities" "to further their Marxist agenda" (emphasis added):
7. "Controllists" Want To Serve School Meals So That Kids Will Be In School More And To Teach Kids That Everything Is Free.
Continued at Link:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/05/13/the-8-most-ridiculous-attacks-on-public-educati/199284
In one of their odder arguments, Beck and Olson claim that "controllists" use the school meals program to "make the case that kids must be in school more" and that school meals will teach kids "the concept of 'free' public handouts":
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Yipes.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)cleaning the ceramics classroom.
Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)... beside other fuc*ing morons