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There is one particular scene on one particular movie that I would like anyone who has ever voted Democratic to watch. The movie is a documentary about the cartel that runs the education system, specifically in New Jersey. The scene is about a lottery drawing for slots in a charter school showing the faces of children whose names have been drawn, and those who were not so lucky. Both are in tears, but are crying for different reasons. The scene focuses on a child weeping for her loss.
Jeannette Catsoulis, a writer for the New York Times, describes the film as "a bludgeoning rant against a single state." She described the kid who has just failed to get the slot as "another tiny victim of public school hell."
I think that it would be impossible for anyone who does not get any personal or political gain from the cartel's control over New Jersey's education system to watch the scene and not be moved by it. It is not something new that students and teachers both fall victim to a system that is indifferent to the fact that teaching and learning do not take place in many schools. It is not something new that there is an increasing number of these students that leave schools unprepared to work and function in the real world. But you cannot blame the director for presenting facts concerning the issue as if it is new, as if nobody has done anything to alleviate it yet.
It is encouraging to note that since the movie came out, people have started taking steps in keeping themselves informed about how more and more of the taxpayers' money and government funds are being allotted and spent by the cartel on education. On a recent school-budget election in New Jersey, residents rejected over half of the budgets on the ballot.
As depressing as it may sound, it seems that in New Jersey, education budgets are no longer held as something sacred anymore. Driven by that fact, Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the teachers' unions as no previous New Jersey Governor has done before. Although it may seem like his efforts in fighting the education cartel pales in comparison to his devil-may-care approach on some of the other issues he is tackling.
One other thing worth noting is how the movie establishes the director's credentials in undertaking such an issue as the cartel at the beginning of the film. It is introduced in the film that the director is a local TV reporter in New Jersey. Belonging to the media profession, his reliability stems from the fact that he sees things as they are.
The director of the documentary film also takes the flurry of statistics concerning government funds on education and comparisons on outcomes of New Jersey education with other states, and makes them as comprehensive as possible to the audience without compromising any of the facts.
The movie has the cartel running scared now. And the fact that they are criticizing New Jersey's Governor is not helping them. Hopefully this movie will inspire many to act and do something about this issue. We owe it to the weeping child.
Jeannette Catsoulis, a writer for the New York Times, describes the film as "a bludgeoning rant against a single state." She described the kid who has just failed to get the slot as "another tiny victim of public school hell."
I think that it would be impossible for anyone who does not get any personal or political gain from the cartel's control over New Jersey's education system to watch the scene and not be moved by it. It is not something new that students and teachers both fall victim to a system that is indifferent to the fact that teaching and learning do not take place in many schools. It is not something new that there is an increasing number of these students that leave schools unprepared to work and function in the real world. But you cannot blame the director for presenting facts concerning the issue as if it is new, as if nobody has done anything to alleviate it yet.
It is encouraging to note that since the movie came out, people have started taking steps in keeping themselves informed about how more and more of the taxpayers' money and government funds are being allotted and spent by the cartel on education. On a recent school-budget election in New Jersey, residents rejected over half of the budgets on the ballot.
As depressing as it may sound, it seems that in New Jersey, education budgets are no longer held as something sacred anymore. Driven by that fact, Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the teachers' unions as no previous New Jersey Governor has done before. Although it may seem like his efforts in fighting the education cartel pales in comparison to his devil-may-care approach on some of the other issues he is tackling.
One other thing worth noting is how the movie establishes the director's credentials in undertaking such an issue as the cartel at the beginning of the film. It is introduced in the film that the director is a local TV reporter in New Jersey. Belonging to the media profession, his reliability stems from the fact that he sees things as they are.
The director of the documentary film also takes the flurry of statistics concerning government funds on education and comparisons on outcomes of New Jersey education with other states, and makes them as comprehensive as possible to the audience without compromising any of the facts.
The movie has the cartel running scared now. And the fact that they are criticizing New Jersey's Governor is not helping them. Hopefully this movie will inspire many to act and do something about this issue. We owe it to the weeping child.
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Sparta Independent: The Cartel Movie movie had interesting points. A film by Bob Bowdon.
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