Marginalize and gaslight teachers, destroy the unions, privatize everything you can. Yes, do all these and more to destroy public education, but never, ever spend all the money that is being thrown at the Common Core, the testing mandates, etc, to even begin addressing the root causes of poverty in this country.
Peg Robertson is a teacher in Colorado and a national leader of the Opt Out movement (she co-founded United Opt Out). In this post, she describes what happens to teachers in schools that are supposedly “turnaround schools.” They are “gaslighted.” Anyone who has seen the famous Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name knows what it means to be “gaslighted.” Ingrid Bergman’s husband wants to kill her, and he tries to convince her that she is going mad. In Peg’s school, teachers are told that they caused low test scores, and officialdom works hard to persuade them that they cause failure.
She writes:
Gaslighting is such an insane reality to live in that it becomes incredibly difficult to focus on anything else except the ability to get through the day- it is designed intentionally so.
So let’s try to take a look at what’s really happening.
The first stage…
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Politicians Are Poody Heads 
George Carlin wass right.
Leslie