Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) says education today consists of two worlds. One is “of contractors and consultants, and academics and experts, and plenty of officials at the federal, state and local level.” The other is of those who teach, and “the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives.”
Are there any truer words about public education these days than those spoken by Sheldon Whitehouse?
Whitehouse hit this way out of the park. His comment speaks volumes about the level of mistrust in our profession. But how on Earth did the contractors, consultants, academics, faux-perts, and edu-fakers ever earn the trust of the media?
ReplyDeleteMany of the elites in the media identify with the elites who work as contractors, consultants, academics, faux-perts, and edu-fakers. They all went to the same "elite" schools and see themselves as part of the same meritocracy.
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