0 Advice for Arne Duncan, from one privileged white male to another...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were, and that’s pretty scary.

Arne Duncan, Education Emperor

Arne Duncan is a privileged white male--you could look it up. (The first clue  is his first name--"Arne" is a bit too precious for my tastes--I can say that because I am also a privileged white male.)

It's fascinating to me to see how Arne breaks down demographics.

Let's suppose there's white/everyone-else, men/women, and suburban/urban/rural Americans. That gives us 12 permutations.  Go ahead, spin the wheel.

Georg Pencz, Wheel of Fortune, 1534

Rickatickatickaticaticka......

Everyone-else rural dads
          White suburban moms
                    White urban dads
                           Everyone-else rural moms                                                          Everyone-else suburban dads

Ponder your visceral reaction to each group as it comes up on the big wheel.
Ponder why you have any visceral reaction at all.

Then go ponder Jose Vilson's prescient "Excuse Me, Your Privilege is Showing (White Privilege in Ed Reform)."

It's not so much what Mr. Duncan thinks about white suburban moms--it's what he thinks about everybody else.

Until we confront racism in all its guises, the neo-liberal version of ed reform movement will continue to reek, no matter how much fancy cologne is dabbed on its stinking carcass.

Time to have that conversation.
Updated with help from Mr. Vilson.

xcuse Me, Your Privilege Is Showing (White Privilege in Ed Reform) - See more at: http://thejosevilson.com/excuse-privilege-showing-white-privilege-education-reform/#sthash.m410PsvC.dpuf

xcuse Me, Your Privilege Is Showing (White Privilege in Ed Reform) - See more at: http://thejosevilson.com/excuse-privilege-showing-white-privilege-education-reform/#sthash.m410PsvC.dpuf

xcuse Me, Your Privilege Is Showing (White Privilege in Ed Reform) - See more at: http://thejosevilson.com/excuse-privilege-showing-white-privilege-education-reform/#sthash.m410PsvC.dpuf