{"id":2588,"date":"2010-08-18T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2010-08-18T13:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:56:56","slug":"rouge-forum-update-resistance-news-wars-pestilence-attacks-on-teachers-the-response-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2010\/08\/rouge-forum-update-resistance-news-wars-pestilence-attacks-on-teachers-the-response-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: Resistance News! Wars! Pestilence! Attacks on Teachers! The Response! And More!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rouge Forum blog, complete with notices of great recent publications about schools and society is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here are two samples: <\/p>\n

Kim Scipes: The AFL-CIO\u2019s Secret War Against Developing Countries\u2013Solidarity or Sabotage<\/em><\/a> [pdf] (20% discount!)<\/p>\n

Don Perl: Book Chapter \u2013 \u201dHeeding Humble Voices\u201d<\/a> [pdf]<\/p>\n

This is also the first call for nominations for election to the Rouge Forum Steering Committee, 2010. Please send nominations to Community Coordinator Adam Renner<\/a>. Nominations close September 10. <\/p>\n

Little Red Schoolhouse:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Brosio at the Rouge Forum Conference 2010<\/a>: \u201cMarxist Thought: Still Primus Inter Pares For Understanding And Opposing The Capitalist System\u201d [pdf] <\/p>\n

Dems Push Through Bribe to Teachers (and cops) to Continue the RaTT<\/a>: House Democrats today pushed through a $26 billion jobs bill to protect 300,000 teachers and other nonfederal government workers from election-year layoffs. (Don\u2019t ask about the food stamp cuts\u2026) <\/p>\n

Ok. About the Food Stamps<\/a>: Though many in the education community are celebrating last week\u2019s Senate vote for the so-called Edujobs bill, I can\u2019t find any joy in it. In fact, I am shaken and ashamed because, to pay for it, the Senate snatched $11.9 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. <\/p>\n

Alpert on What the Rich Do When They Lose a School Board Vote\u2013Try to Abolish the Board<\/a>: \u201cThese guys are trying to water down the school board because they didn\u2019t like the way the election turned out,\u201d said John de Beck, a longtime board member. \u201cHimelstein is like the hired gun for the rich. He has no qualifications and he has no training in how to run a school.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Note from the Local Valedictorian<\/a>: <\/p>\n

School is not all that it can be. Right now, it is a place for most people to determine that their goal is to get out as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer \u2013 not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition \u2013 a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rouge Forum blog, complete with notices of great recent publications about schools and society is here. And here are two samples: Kim Scipes: The AFL-CIO\u2019s Secret War Against Developing Countries\u2013Solidarity or Sabotage [pdf] (20% discount!) Don Perl: Book Chapter \u2013 \u201dHeeding Humble Voices\u201d [pdf] This is also the first call for nominations for election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2155],"tags":[4160,3204,19164,3490,19165,3067,8487,1572067],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rouge-forum-update","tag-afl-cio","tag-cia","tag-edujobs","tag-high-stakes-testing","tag-kim-scipes","tag-marxism","tag-race-to-the-top","tag-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}