This is really interesting - to be honest I am at work and am resisting being pulled into reading this until tonight... I have a good friend who I have had sin

This is really interesting - to be honest I am at work and am resisting being pulled into reading this until tonight... I have a good friend who I have had since college days. Has been an NYC public school teacher for a while. Loves to teach - onel of those folks that is constantly formulating ideas, reads voraciously, argues passionately, etc. I see him as caught between the attempt to corporatize education and a bloated, syphillic (sp) union... My ideas not his. On my side I had kids in public school until 2nd grade where I saw disturbing things that made me jump ship to a charter where my boys thrive. This is anecdotal - I do not want to try and prove/ disprove anything by this. I wish we had a viable pub school option locally but we don't at the moment. Our school survived a scummy attack on charters locally in which false claims were made about segregation. This was disproven but we were made aware of the fact that the other side has more resources and deeper legal pockets then the charter school does. As I said I will sit down and read this later. I am interested in something that comes up when my buddy and I talk about this stuff. Somewhere I picked up a concept from French which I will anglicize as "Deformation Professionelle" (my apologies for butchering it - I will properly google it later). ed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnelle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9formation_professionnell... I see this when tech and teachers discuss education. I sit and talk to him about tech issues - 'net neutrality', privacy issue, (going back a decade) attacks on open source software, etc. And he doesn't know about these things. And I (at times) wax enthusiastic about things like Khan Academy or charter schools without seeing possible drawbacks. I look forward to giving this a proper read later - am glad to see this on HN.