The two educators Ms. Nelson lauds are Michael and Susan Klonsky, and the event at which she met them at the Ayers/Dohrn home was a book signing of Klonksy’s new Small Schools: Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society. The title alone should raise eyebrows — “Ownership Society “– anti-capitalist term if we’ve ever heard one.
I’m not sure I even need to link to the next thing I’m going to for those of us who have been conscious since 1999, but for the slow out there:
Fact Sheet: America’s Ownership Society: Expanding Opportunities
“…if you own something, you have a vital stake in the future of our country. The more ownership there is in America, the more vitality there is in America, and the more people have a vital stake in the future of this country.”
-President George W. Bush, June 17, 2004
The White House even offers the Spanish Language Translation.
The modern wingnut, beyond parody.
Fran picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue….