Central Falls High School is ground zero in a battle between radical education change focused on the needs of students, and the hard-won labor rights that protect the jobs and working conditions of adults.
See, when they frame the issue as working moms versus poor kids it is the embodiment of what robber baron Jay Gould said:
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
Forget doing the hard work of addressing poverty; forget taking on the politically difficult task of dealing with racism and immigration. Why touch those third rails? Let’s just play cynical politics and make the people at the bottom fight each other.
I'm confused... A teacher making $78,000 in Central Falls is -in- the top 5% of income. Two living together are in the top half of the top 1 percentile.
ReplyDeleteThey're at the bottom?
You address poverty by raising-up the people you represent to the top 5% and tasking them with teaching the poor to not be poor?
I'm really, really confused.