From Paul Moore
The horror, Colonel Kurtz? Yes indeed and now the irony too!
John Castellani's puss has been all over TV for the last several days. He's the president of the Business Roundtable.
Back when the Business Roundtable was riding high in 1989, flush with Reagan era confidence, the big company CEO's met for an education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia. They came down from their summit and announced to the world that they would transform America's public schools.
Who could have imagined that less than twenty years later these same men would appear, hat in hand, to plead with public school teachers, parents and students to each give them $3,000 as their share of a $700 billion public bailout. Goodness, what happened to their vaunted
business model? Somehow these proponents of data driven education have no idea what their collateralized debt obligations (CDO's) are worth. Most shockingly, the poster boys for accountability who pranced around with their noses in the air chanting "no excuses" over
the battered minds and bodies of poor children, want sympathy and want to be rescued by their victims!
Public school teachers, parents and students our time under these sanctimonius, hypocritical blowhards is over! They have forfeited their right to any influence in our schools. Mail your No.2 pencils to the Business Roundtable, swords into plowshares, standardized tests into poetry contests.
Long live Douglas Avella!
Paul A. Moore
Miami Carol City High School
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