Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular! edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.

As @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social is so good to keep reminding us, progressives can continue to win on this issue if they will get off the fence and stop flirting with these neovoucher programs.

Good news is that, despite 1930s proto-Nazi school politics parallels, today's privatization push--draining public school funding, licensing discrimination, segregating students, lacking accountability, and mostly benefitting the well-off--is deeply unpopular! edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.

Sound familiar? edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.

Sound familiar? edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.

This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....

This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....

Same goes for Dem senators

Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.

One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.

1. Culture Wars 2. Censorship 3. Privatization Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk? Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power. open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Is education a lost cause? No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living. Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.

1. Culture Wars 2. Censorship 3. Privatization Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk? Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power. open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Is education a lost cause? No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living. Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.

The Speaker should not have unilateral authority to keep the House in recess. Add this to the growing list of antidemocratic rules that must be changed when democratic power is restored.

"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation." edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation." edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

Let's be honest, when it comes to schooling, progressive elites want excellence for their own children and some more modest measure of equity for other people's children. That's better than not caring about equity at all, but it's a far cry from equity for all.

“Amid a depression, Weimar governments used emergency powers to evade civil service protections and implement drastic austerity measures, cutting thousands of teacher jobs and reducing compensation.“ Excellent piece by @joshuaweishart.bsky.social edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...

What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi insightful & interesting commentary from education scholar @joshuaweishart.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Let's be honest, when it comes to schooling, progressive elites want excellence for their own children and some more modest measure of equity for other people's children. That's better than not caring about equity at all, but it's a far cry from equity for all.

The playbook is there for all to see. Excellent piece from Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social : What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

The Nazi-inspired school history rhymes we are repeating: 1. Culture wars 2. Censorship 3. Privatization #1 & #2 get all the headlines but #3 brings together twin autocratic goals of indoctrination and economic exploitation & fleecing. open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

In education politics and policy, we are repeating the tactics of the early Nazis that led to the downfall of democracy. open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

"there is nothing neutral about remaining silent in the face of creeping authoritarianism, or worse, appeasing the creep. To be sure, the power grabs are about power. But they are also about greed which brings us to the final stanza of our Nazi-inspired school history rhymes."

Excellent piece on our reality and why educators saw it coming first. “not enough has been said about the educational conditions that precipitated the rise of Nazism and how those circumstances resemble the politics of schooling in American today.”

A little on the nose

Turns out education is the long AND short game open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Today's immigrant children are going to help us one day drive these real life Halloween goons and monsters out of power.

This is a compelling read. Frustrating but compelling. The fractured nature of American education may be one of the things that help us get to the other side.

Looking forward to the day when we once again consider the president a bum and, even if we like him, can't wait to throw the bum out.

Today's immigrant children are going to help us one day drive these real life Halloween goons and monsters out of power.

Not going to surprise you that our education politics resemble that of early Nazi Germany. But it matters how, who it benefits and harms, and what specific policies to resist and guard against. So I wrote this: open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Not going to surprise you that our education politics resemble that of early Nazi Germany. But it matters how, who it benefits and harms, and what specific policies to resist and guard against. So I wrote this: bit.ly/47jmcy0

We all just want to go about our lives but if we go full dictatorship, we'll have to forego what we want our lives to be about.

Legal sophistry, garbage

Appreciate the h/t Chris, the authors seemed to have missed my 2020 piece which would have added, I think, some helpful legal architecture to what they are proposing. Either way, pleased that the idea is getting some attention.

Appreciate the h/t Chris, the authors seemed to have missed my 2020 piece which would have added, I think, some helpful legal architecture to what they are proposing. Either way, pleased that the idea is getting some attention.

"America’s education polarization, between the least- and well- educated, exposes the fragility of a democracy that never fully committed to democratic education. And since we didn’t learn our Nazi-inspired school history rhymes, we are repeating them to our doom." open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...

Yes! And tell your children who the brave ones were too!

Public schools should be the sanctuaries of our democracy. When ICE defiles that space, it sabotages the sacred trust we owe to children and their parents.

Courts can smoke out illicit motives, and some are doing so faithfully, but SCOTUS conservatives keep signaling to judges that they should defer to the president's pretexts instead.