It’s Funny Because It’s Not Funny
I recently saw a particularly poignant piece of graffito etched on a friend’s Facebook wall:
A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.”
And while this might easily refer to any number of anti-labor sentiments, it seems most appropriate as a reaction to the current – inexplicable – War on Teachers that has been raging in the media lately.
If you haven’t seen last Thursday’s Daily Show, you really need to go watch it. In a brilliant piece at the top of the show, Jon Stewart demonstrates the hypocrisy of the right-wing talking heads when talking about teachers. Later, he interviews education truth-teller Diane Ravitch, who lays out the rest of the argument.
If you want to understand the conversations surrounding education reform, then – as Tom Tomorrow says in this week’s strip – that’s all you need to know.
March 10th, 2011 at 9:39 am
I love that story about the cookies.
March 10th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Well spoken
March 10th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Well stated is what I meant to say.
March 31st, 2011 at 12:17 pm
These are the kinds of blog posts I come to ST.com for – nicely done, sir!!!
April 2nd, 2011 at 7:05 am
Thanks, DeLisa!
I’d like to write more about the crisis in education, but I often find myself too busy addressing it!
More to come…