Gotham Schools Censorship Hypocrisy

Gotham Schools continues to censor commentators that don't meet their corporate-friendly education deform standards for commentary.

The latest to be banned from commenting is Mustafa (you can see some of the fall-out from that in this thread here.)

Having had a few of my comments scrubbed in the past, I decided to largely refrain from commenting there.

I also decided to delink GS from my blog and to refrain from going to GS much.

It is of course their right to decide who can comment on their posts and what those commentators can say.

But they ought to leave the sanctimonious jive about only scrubbing personal attacks and bad language from their public explanation of why they are scrubbing commentators.

I have had comments scrubbed that were neither attacks on other persons nor contained bad language.

The corporate-friendly (and corporate-needy - DONATIONS PLEASE!!!!) Gotham Schools people just didn't like what I said.

That's fine and that's cool.

I don't much like how they frame issues - it's always through a Gates reform-friendly lens.

I know a lot of other working teachers and people on the education blogosphere who feel the same way about jive ass outfits like GS (and Ed Week for that matter.)

Listen, these people are ALWAYS looking for corporate grant hand-outs, so they HAVE to keep the dialogue corporate-friendly.

If it would upset Michael Bennet or New Visions or some other deform outlet, then GS doesn't want it on their site.

So the censorship goons at Gotham Schools have been busy with their Michelle Rhee brooms scrubbing anything that would make the ed deform folks sad or uncomfortable.

Again, that's their right.

But it is also our right to call them what they are - education deform hypocrites with a corporate-friendly agenda.