Re: Chicago -- Small Schools and Big Scams

[Peter Farruggio <pfarr@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU>]

George,

SWAT teams???!!! Like in Special Weapons Assault Team  (the psycho military
assault squads on most large city police departments, considered to be nuts
by most street cops)?  What a choice of acronym!!  Must provide lots of
fodder for jokes.

Pete



At 03:09 AM 2/4/00 , you wrote:
> 2/4/00
>
> This is in answer to the question by Pete (and others) about the people who
> are sent in to help "failing schools."
>
> In Chicago the SWAT teams are called "external partners." At best, they are
> irrelevant wanderers. At worst, they are teacher bashers and ideologues
> pushing a political line while collecting political patronage. One of the
> interesting things about the Daley administration is that they figured out
> how to buy the services, and the support, of people across the spectrum, from
> the "left" to the unions and all the way to the far right.

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