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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:43 AM Original message |
Our Public Schools Are Churning Out Drones for the Corporate State (Chris Hedges) |
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90-percent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'm flattering myself undeservedly |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
2. So are our law schools and medical schools |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
3. TPTB are creating |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. along the lines of what you said: |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I remember seeing this |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Tells you a lot about what PBS has become,doesn't it? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. The War on Drugs has one purpose only, to create a class of Convict-Slaves. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I refuse to take out student loans, I don't care if it takes me till I'm 30 before I graduate. |
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Pooka Fey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. The photo adds so much to the article. Thanks for posting. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
25. I thought so too. Seeing those books just made me depressed. |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. Sad K&R. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's because the activist Boomers |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Wrong generation, it was the one before the Boomers that did most of the activism. |
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Le Taz Hot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. You mean the same generation that was |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. I'm not talking about the WW2 generation, I talking about the Silent Generation that came after them |
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MedleyMisty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. Boomers don't recognize any other generation |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 08:12 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I was born in 1986, so I'm an early Millennial. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. My father fought in WWII. I am a Boomer. HIS generation did not march vs. VietNam; mine did. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. See post #30. I'm not talking about the WW2 Generation. |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
9. KRNT |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
10. Then citizens, especially Democrats, |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. I totally agree Wolf. Educators should be in charge of these things |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. Yes. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. And yet some posters here still treat Homeschoolers as the spawn of Satan. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
15. "creating a rationale for corporate takeover" |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
17. A couple decades ago, school supers started calling themselves "CEOs." The rest was inevitable. |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
18. There's a reason why Aldous Huxley still rocks |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. And why I taught that one to seniors for decades. ;-) |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. yes indeed. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Hear! Hear! Our local PBS station (Channel Eight in Lake County) |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. American Idol = Soma. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
21. This is starting to happen in our universities too, as the corporate mentality takes over: adjuncts |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:05 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. "[S]tarting"?! |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Yeah, I know. It's getting worse and worse. My graduate school has told its students |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
23. well, how else do you expect our labor force to become more competitive with China and India? |
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QED (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
33. This is another great article by Hedges. |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
35. I hate to say it but there may come a time |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:57 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Or real teaching will go underground. |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:46 PM Original message |
Could not agree more |
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AsahinaKimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. dupe |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
38. and serfs to serve them on vacations etc. |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
39. K&R'd! Source for the photo? |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
41. Although I can understand... |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
43. How else could our organziations and institutions function? |
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