Great article, but it leaves out the role of the Catholic Church, which was especially relevant in Milwaukee where the Wisconsin voucher system started. The Milwaukee Archdiocese had long called for a government bailout of its bankrupt parochial school system. It joined forces with the forces of reaction, racism, and misplaced liberalism (see Rethinking Schools at the time). In Milwaukee the problem was that the school system included a growing majority of Black students, which was a product of White flight, deindustrialization, and the ironic victory of Lloyd Barbee's successful federal lawsuit against the Milwaukee School Board for its many years of covert, de facto segregation. By the time of the voucher push, the Milwaukee school system increasingly served a Black population with a growing Black teaching staff, and increasing Black administration. White Wisconsin used vouchers as a way to isolate itself from Black Milwaukee
And that's why they make standardized tests so hard: to make it look like public schools are "failing", nad need to be rescued by "school choice." It's all a right-wing scheme to return to the old ways of schools as brainwashing factories for jesus instead of real education. America will continue its downward spiral into third world status if we sit back and do nothing.
I speak as a former teacher. Quitting this madness was the happiest day of my life.
This is a superb article and if the national press is worthy of the name, they will use it as a basis for further digging into the Walker case. But if they don't, you should consider writing an op-ed about the legal story on coordinating campaign finance, using the Walker case as an example of what Citizens United has spawned.
Oz often promotes new ideas in health. He cites recent research and invites explorers in new technologies to state their case. Of course this rankles many 'medical experts'.
Here is why:
Medical Experts, by definition, are those ambitious doctors who have moved into high political status in the profession. Many no longer practice medicine, all are ancient fossils who should have retired to make room for real doctors. The Experts studied medicine in the 60s when leaching, amputating and bloodletting was the cure for everything. They studied from texts printed in the 50s that were researched in the 40s.
These Experts have been guided by the Food & Medical Industry in their thinking and together they influence the Food & Drug Administration (and others) in a perpetual lie that includes the Food Pyramid and warnings against dietary supplements and an endless parade of nonsense 'science'.
Dr. Oz may sometimes offer advice that is flawed. He is unusually good looking and charismatic- characteristics that can work against him when he wants to seem serious and professional. But he seeks to benefit from real science that is emerging from all over the world despite the entrenched forces trying to subdue it. His role on television is to present new ideas, not protect old fallacies.
All I can see if Oz is a quack -looks like one walks like one and is one. Lets face reality he may be an excellent surgeon but has totally lost it with the claims he uses to make his profits and it is a scandal what he does.
Can you tell more about Dr. Gilbert Ross as a felon. Is this just someone by the same name? What is your source.
Of course I think Oz is an unconvicted felon but I am biased by facts. I think we may need to "shoot the messengers" but the message may be correct
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