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• https://dianeravitch.net/2023/05/19/why-everyone-pays-for-public-schools-not-private-or-religious-schools/#comment-3468379

Regarding Old World Religious Wars …

Diane and All,

One of the people I follow on Mastodon posts a running montage of images from European history, photos of artworks, engravings, vignettes, etc. from museums and other collections.

I don’t know if the link will work, but here’s a typical pic off the top —

❝21 May 1535: William Tyndale Bible translator tricked into leaving the English merchant house at Antwerp on this day. Seized in an adjoining alley, incarcerated at Vilvorde where he was executed in Oct 1536.❞

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@jdmccafferty@mastodon.online/110406075533367748

The striking thing is almost every third picture illustrates a gory event from the Old World Religious Wars. Posthumous executions were a popular style of retribution — some dude or dudess gets disinterred and burned or hanged or drawn and quartered in their coffin for some offense against the current religious regime they are charged with committing during the last one.

#ReligiousWars

Slavery is the original form of capitalism and it always, everywhere reverts to type.

Re: Diane Ravitch • Dark Money Pushes Weakening of Child Labor Laws
• https://dianeravitch.net/2023/04/30/dark-money-pushes-weakening-of-child-labor-laws/

#DianeRavitch #PublicEducation #ChildWelfare #ChildLabor #Capitalism #Slavery

Re: Diane Ravitch • James Harvey: How We Cooked the Books to Produce a Deeply Flawed “A Nation at Risk”
• https://dianeravitch.net/2023/04/27/james-harvey-a-nation-at-risk-was-a-great-disaster-for-americas-students-teachers-and-public-schools/

My Comment —

It marked the incursion of the Defense Industry Model (DIM) into public education policy and it was the first salvo fired by the Destroyers Of Public Education (DOPEs).

#DianeRavitch #PublicEducation #NationAtRiskReport
#DefenseIndustryModel #DestroyersOfPublicEducation

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

#quote #DianeRavitch #mind #intelligent #test #standard

Re: #DianeRavitch • #ThomHartmann : Why the GOP Wants to Destroy #PublicSchools
• https://dianeravitch.net/2022/12/06/thom-hartmann-why-the-gop-wants-to-destroy-public-schools/

I remember it was after the #KentStateMassacre I quit caring about … pretty much anything involving politics and the state of the belovèd country I thought I once knew. I pinned my heart to my own Greensleeves and dug my nose back into my arts and my books. That kept me occupied for a goodly third of a century.

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