Too often Michelle Rhee does not get challenged when she pushes the corporate education agenda. And when she does, she never has any good answers. Here is a recent interview with Bill Maher that illustrates how Rhee has little substance behind her cliches she has parlayed into a cottage industry. The interview is about eight minutes long. If you don’t have that time, here is a summary from the Washington Post.
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She stripped Maher up over the fact our top students are ranked #1 when compared to the average students around the world, but rank 25 when compared to the top students around the world.
I don’t get the title of this post, more like “Maher says uncle to Michelle” would be more appropriate, and I like Bill Maher.
…that “stripped” Rhee of her counter point. As the Post writer explains:
In my book you only do that if they’ve committed a crime. Otherwise it is very disruptive to do that other than over the summer.
Getting fired at the end of February can also be disruptive too you know 😉
Was Rhee fired as DC Chancellor in February?
I was, hence the 😉 since it was a tongue in cheek comment.
through her teeth. She lied about her brief career as a teacher and lied and cheated her way through her tenure as DC chancellor. You can read more about her life as a bullshit artist on Wikipedia or if you’re really hard core the Jersey Jazzman. You can also search edushyster’s blog.
Michelle Rhee is one of the many ed reform Poverty Pimps on the stroll in urban communities to make a quick and easy buck. She has found her niche in ed reform, because, after Washington DC, who else would hire her! Rhee is to ed reform, what Sarah Palin is to the Republican Party, both are well-paid vipers. What’s most frightening is that Michelle Rhee probably has ed reform tenure! People might be taken in because she’s not hard on the eye, and like many sociopathic narcissist, she is articulate. After watching Rhee on Bill Maher, I went and watched the video of her speaking on rheefirst.com. I would have only been happier with Bill Maher if he said, “What’s this I hear about tape?” Why, oh why, didn’t Bill reference her taping the mouths of her 35, 2nd grader’s, causing bleeding and crying when it was removed!
Where were the lawyers for these children? Why didn’t someone file a “child in need of services” report against Michelle Rhee? I was a teacher 18 years ago, taping was not common teaching practice, and never would have been tolerated in the Boston Public Schools! Rhee was allowed to do this to 2nd graders and wasn’t told that teaching might not “be the right fit” for her! Then she took 4 kids on an after-school field trip without their home addresses! Didn’t she have permission slips? Where was her critical thinking? Besides being a sociopathic narcissist, is she a magical thinker too!
Rhee has caused so much damage the Washington DC community and the hardworking teachers, staff, and students of the DC Public Schools. You have to wonder about the foundations and organizations that continue to support and give Rhee money for Student First! Here, I think, there is something be said about guilt by association!