[identity profile] enders-shadow.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] talkpolitics
http://labornotes.org/2012/02/chicago-occupation-challenges-corporate-school-agenda

This isn't terribly big news. But it does show that an occupation of space can lead to a positive result.

To be fair, I felt occupation was a silly tactic back in early September 2011. I've come around sense then.

Have you? Does this article mean anything to you? Does it make you think that maybe occupying spaces is a tactic that gets results?

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Date: 22/2/12 18:01 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
I know what I think a "positive result" would be, and I'm not seeing it here. You never explain what the "positive result" is here, so I'm asking you to expand on it. Can you do that?

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Date: 22/2/12 18:29 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-dallas.livejournal.com
so no reversal, just a meeting. Well that is more than nothing...

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Date: 22/2/12 19:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
it's a lot, actually. The Chicago government, particularly when it comes to schools, has been very dismissive of parents and communities when it comes to this sort of thing.

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Date: 22/2/12 19:17 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
I wonder if your mayor or my mayor has the bigger egos :P

Cuz Mayor Bloomberg has a really nasty temper.

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Date: 22/2/12 21:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
Oh, mine has the bigger ego, but yours has more money.

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Date: 22/2/12 21:33 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telemann.livejournal.com
They should do a mock fight on Vince McMahon's wrestling show ;)

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Date: 22/2/12 19:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
How did the occupiers force it? Are you seriously claiming that they would not have gotten the same result being adults about it?

Furthermore, if "engagement" means "opposition to a good charter school," is that a "positive result?" If so, how is the status quo on schooling better than the alternative being floated?

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Date: 22/2/12 23:21 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
No, they would not have gotten the same results without using their first amendment rights to protest the decision in the the way that they did.

"good charter school" is not an absolute, nor is it a fact. A school that pushes out "undesirables" in an attempt to make it look like it's doing better is failing at being a school, not succeeding.

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Date: 23/2/12 00:18 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
No, they would not have gotten the same results without using their first amendment rights to protest the decision in the the way that they did.

How do you figure?

"good charter school" is not an absolute, nor is it a fact. A school that pushes out "undesirables" in an attempt to make it look like it's doing better is failing at being a school, not succeeding.

How do you know that's the plan here?

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Date: 23/2/12 00:43 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dwer.livejournal.com
Because I've been living in Chicago for years, and CPS ignores people a whole lot. And I know that's the plan because that's ALWAYS been the plan -- because I've living in Chicago for years and I've seen it.

Did you READ the article?

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Date: 23/2/12 00:46 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com
I did, yes. This is all assumption by you, then, good to know.

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