According to the New Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/education/22winerip.html?_r=1 Rhee insisted that the cameras come in while she fired some principles on camera. Here is a brief clip as it appeared on PBS. Of course Michelle Rhee was the darling of plenty of the money men, the educational experts who have never educated a child in their lifetime and appear to want to start educating them with teachers who have all the skills and expertise of a quicky mart employee. Rhee was also was one of the big stars in the educational propaganda film Waiting For Superman and she also got a big plug from the queen of education Oprah. Here she is on Oprah:
Oprah here: has spun her ability to get people to open up about their problems into a mega billion dollar empire and who's own foray into education comes down to being a distant executive at one elite boarding school, in South Africa, that has had a couple of major sex scandals since it opened in 2007. Oprah was apparently too busy supplementing her income when those incidents befell the children but like any good distant executive as Michell Rhee can respect she did clean house afterward. Full story here http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/03/30/2009-03-30_o_no_not_again_oprahs_school_rocked_by_s.html
What is interesting about Oprah's approach is that the panel is filled up with everyone that wants to buy country's curriculum and then fire all its teachers but she isn't talking about "all the good teachers", and you know who you are, only all the deadbeats I see around you as they blockbust one educational system after another. Apparently what Rhee the "warrior woman" didn't tell Oprah that the best way to achieve these results was with a batch of tests and a big eraser. Eventually Rhee's protector Mayor Fenty was fired, by the very people they were suppose to be standing up for, and Rhee had to go freelance finding different school systems to destroy. And was Fenty himself contrite after the voters so soundly rejected him. No he joined the National Cities Educational Campaign or Everfi, a group that is looking to profit on the gold rush of educational material as there is plenty of money in education for someone who doesn't go anywhere near a classroom. There product is to promote financial literacy through video games. and a former mayor might be able to help sell to the people they need to impress.
http://www.dcblack.com/the-news/339-everfi-announces-former-washington-dc-mayor-adrian-fenty-to-lead-national-cities-education-campaign.html
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