The Future Of Education In Fitzwalkerstan

Sometimes, our commenters leave a comment that is so spot on that they deserve their own post.

An example would be this comment left on this piece about how good teachers are leaving in droves because of Act 10 and all of its intended and unintended consequences:

I can tell you what happened to me--it's how educators are being treated now. In my school, a teacher with 19 years of experience (read: teacher at top of the salary scale) was non-renewed. I was told that next year, I would be teaching "his" classes as well as mine--two separate subjects with well over 300 students. I was also at the top of the salary scale; feeling as though I was being set up to fail (merit pay, anyone?), I retired. The teacher who was hired to take my place is a new, unexperienced teacher (read: bottom of the salary scale). In effect, my district got rid of two highly paid teachers and replaced us with one very low paid teacher. This is the future of education in WI.

AFP- WI Is At It Again!

We brought you the story of how, after finding out that WI led the nation in job losses in June and that we are 2nd in the Nation in Construction job losses(thanks Alaska), Americans for Prosperity Poverty (AFP-WI) the Koch funded shadow group, decided that this news  was so exciting for the State of Wisconsin that they decided to party!! 

They are back at it.  Now AFP-WI is holding a birthday party for deceased and discredited economist Milton Friedman! 

Milton Freidman 100^th Birthday Celebration

July 31^st

6:30pm to 8pm

Country Springs Hotel

2810 Golf Rd Pewaukee, WI

With Rep Robin Vos, AFP State Director Luke Hilgemann, President of School Choice WI Jim Bender, and Brian Pleva of American Federation for Children

It is good that they are going to celebrate a discredited economist, by having no economists in the room!   As for the collection of wingnuts speaking who want to privatize our schools so they can profit off of them,  it did not seem to work in Philadelphia!