I await the darkness about to befall us differently than most of you because I was a teacher and I knew our schools weren’t just lost. Power mongers hijacked our teachers and their unions decades ago and the media totally missed this. Our presidents have missed this.
I await the darkness about to befall us differently than most of you because I was a teacher and I knew our schools weren’t just lost. Power mongers hijacked our teachers and their unions decades ago and the media totally missed this. Our presidents have missed this.
The person leading this Substack has missed this.
Most people think it’s impossible to reform our schools. The truth is those holding the power over all of our heads have made sure reform doesn’t work because our schools are their deep state - their personal treasure chests.
I’ve been trying to expose this since 1995, aware that schools are democracy’s foundation and in time we’d lose our democracy. I decided each day, at least once, I’d ask people to go to WhiteChalkCrime.com and listen to five whistleblowing teachers so they’d understand how Trump happened to us, aware our only way back to democracy is freeing our teachers and their unions from these mobsters who’ve stolen our democracy.
If people understood what happened to our schools, they would get on school boards on a save democracy platform and at least we’d have our island to ride out this storm. However, this hijacking caused most of you to lose faith in teachers. You’re judging our inability to educate citizens as our fault when we’ve been kidnapped, banished or muzzled. You’re angry at teachers because we were the people who were to hold up democracy but couldn’t because no one in power listens to us.
I keep asking people to go to WhiteChalkCrime.com and listen to the few teachers not afraid to speak out. I get a few likes. Not one celebrity spokesman has reached out to me. You can’t really care about democracy if you don’t care about the teachers. The bad guys successfully made most everyone not care about teachers so you’d have to welcome democracy’s end.
On occasion I get a response such as: but what kind of school could work? - as if good schools are the problem.
Good teachers know what to do to create solid citizens. We were born with that gift. Democracy broke because we’re powerless. Until you understand this you’re helping the thugs and criminals who hijacked your teachers so they could thrive.
You will now live in the darkness that authentic teachers have lived in for decades now until you awaken to this: democracy’s foundation is our schools and teachers are the public servants. A society that devalues its teachers cannot remain a democracy anymore than a society that devalues its doctors could remain healthy or a society that devalues its scientists could keep the planet live-able.
We’re at a turning point where celebrity has replaced substance - one that good teachers could have prevented. First they came for the teachers and now they have it all. Their coming for the teachers and making us, the people with the job of holding up a democracy seem incompetent, made saving democracy impossible. They got you not to listen to us.
The only antidote to that is to keep trying to educate you about how they were able to end democracy. That’s what I’ll do until democracy lovers become woke to how we lost it and how we can save it.
I know you're correct, Karen. I tried to report to the local newspaper about what was happening in our school district while my children were in school and after they were out of school, and I served two terms on the school board. I will put what happened on my substack soon. But right now, we must babysit for my four-year-old five days a week and two nights on weekends. It is unavailable even if parents can afford childcare in this community, so I need more writing time.
Also, I do not wish to miss spending time with my grandchildren at their impressionable age. Some of my grandchildren are adults, and I wish I could have spent more time with them, but they lived over five hours away.
The loss of investigative journalism and even simply the loss of local reporters has much to do with the decline of our educational and healthcare systems. Due to the lack of reporting, politicians have had a free-for-all for the past forty years. This decline in local journalism has led to a lack of transparency and accountability in our communities, allowing for unchecked political actions and a decrease in the quality of our public services. Maybe the substacks can fill in some of the gaps in reporting.
I have learned it’s more about no one respecting teachers than anything else. I documented our local newspaper’s participation in White Chalk Crime. Administrators controlled the local news, the local university , the school board. The system was one about loyalty just like what’s being put in place now in government.
I agree Substack is promising. It attracts the thinking people. I’m just learning about it and figuring it out. Today I posted the prologue of my audiobook on it. Think I did it correctly. Pretty cool what we can do and who we meet. Definitely a light in this darkness closing in on us. Enjoy your children and grandchildren. If not for them I’d be thinking much less about saving democracy. Less and less people deserve it!
I get your point but there’s a podcast with five teachers explaining this there. Too valuable to miss when for decades no one has considered this. Honestly the believability gap is huge. Thanks for caring!
I agree with most of what you have written here, but I am not mad at teachers, and I doubt that most people are. Nor do I believe that people don't care about teachers. I view teachers as victims of the plutocracy along with the rest of us, the plutocracy aided by puritanism and Christian nationalism.
I await the darkness about to befall us differently than most of you because I was a teacher and I knew our schools weren’t just lost. Power mongers hijacked our teachers and their unions decades ago and the media totally missed this. Our presidents have missed this.
The person leading this Substack has missed this.
Most people think it’s impossible to reform our schools. The truth is those holding the power over all of our heads have made sure reform doesn’t work because our schools are their deep state - their personal treasure chests.
I’ve been trying to expose this since 1995, aware that schools are democracy’s foundation and in time we’d lose our democracy. I decided each day, at least once, I’d ask people to go to WhiteChalkCrime.com and listen to five whistleblowing teachers so they’d understand how Trump happened to us, aware our only way back to democracy is freeing our teachers and their unions from these mobsters who’ve stolen our democracy.
If people understood what happened to our schools, they would get on school boards on a save democracy platform and at least we’d have our island to ride out this storm. However, this hijacking caused most of you to lose faith in teachers. You’re judging our inability to educate citizens as our fault when we’ve been kidnapped, banished or muzzled. You’re angry at teachers because we were the people who were to hold up democracy but couldn’t because no one in power listens to us.
I keep asking people to go to WhiteChalkCrime.com and listen to the few teachers not afraid to speak out. I get a few likes. Not one celebrity spokesman has reached out to me. You can’t really care about democracy if you don’t care about the teachers. The bad guys successfully made most everyone not care about teachers so you’d have to welcome democracy’s end.
On occasion I get a response such as: but what kind of school could work? - as if good schools are the problem.
Good teachers know what to do to create solid citizens. We were born with that gift. Democracy broke because we’re powerless. Until you understand this you’re helping the thugs and criminals who hijacked your teachers so they could thrive.
You will now live in the darkness that authentic teachers have lived in for decades now until you awaken to this: democracy’s foundation is our schools and teachers are the public servants. A society that devalues its teachers cannot remain a democracy anymore than a society that devalues its doctors could remain healthy or a society that devalues its scientists could keep the planet live-able.
We’re at a turning point where celebrity has replaced substance - one that good teachers could have prevented. First they came for the teachers and now they have it all. Their coming for the teachers and making us, the people with the job of holding up a democracy seem incompetent, made saving democracy impossible. They got you not to listen to us.
The only antidote to that is to keep trying to educate you about how they were able to end democracy. That’s what I’ll do until democracy lovers become woke to how we lost it and how we can save it.
I know you're correct, Karen. I tried to report to the local newspaper about what was happening in our school district while my children were in school and after they were out of school, and I served two terms on the school board. I will put what happened on my substack soon. But right now, we must babysit for my four-year-old five days a week and two nights on weekends. It is unavailable even if parents can afford childcare in this community, so I need more writing time.
Also, I do not wish to miss spending time with my grandchildren at their impressionable age. Some of my grandchildren are adults, and I wish I could have spent more time with them, but they lived over five hours away.
The loss of investigative journalism and even simply the loss of local reporters has much to do with the decline of our educational and healthcare systems. Due to the lack of reporting, politicians have had a free-for-all for the past forty years. This decline in local journalism has led to a lack of transparency and accountability in our communities, allowing for unchecked political actions and a decrease in the quality of our public services. Maybe the substacks can fill in some of the gaps in reporting.
I have learned it’s more about no one respecting teachers than anything else. I documented our local newspaper’s participation in White Chalk Crime. Administrators controlled the local news, the local university , the school board. The system was one about loyalty just like what’s being put in place now in government.
I agree Substack is promising. It attracts the thinking people. I’m just learning about it and figuring it out. Today I posted the prologue of my audiobook on it. Think I did it correctly. Pretty cool what we can do and who we meet. Definitely a light in this darkness closing in on us. Enjoy your children and grandchildren. If not for them I’d be thinking much less about saving democracy. Less and less people deserve it!
Karen, I agree with you, but you need to support your arguments without asking readers to go to White Chalk. A few major examples will due.
I get your point but there’s a podcast with five teachers explaining this there. Too valuable to miss when for decades no one has considered this. Honestly the believability gap is huge. Thanks for caring!
I agree with most of what you have written here, but I am not mad at teachers, and I doubt that most people are. Nor do I believe that people don't care about teachers. I view teachers as victims of the plutocracy along with the rest of us, the plutocracy aided by puritanism and Christian nationalism.
https://karenhorwitz.substack.com/p/the-prologue-of-a-graver-danger
I’m so proud of myself. I figured out how to post part of my audiobook on Substack!