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 movie critic for the New York Times, describes the scene as a result of the movie director's "emotional coercion," and goes on to saying that the weeping child as "another tiny victim of public school hell," as if not being chosen to get a good education is something trivial.
I like to think that it would be unlikely for anyone without any personal or political stake in the cartel's control over the education system to watch that particular scene without being moved. Although it is not something new for both students and teachers to fall victim to a system that does not allow teaching and learning to take place in many schools, the way the director presents his points seem like nobody has yet to act on the activities of the cartel. The sad fact is that these activities contribute to the increasing cases of students leaving school unprepared to work in the real world.
Since the movie came out, people have finally started making efforts to keep themselves informed about how more funding for public schools has helped in buttressing their failures. Shortly after publishing Jeannette Catsoulis' review on the documentary, New York Times reported that a record number of residents of New Jersey rejected 58% of the budgets during the school-budget elections. They resented the teachers' unions for not concurring to concessions and were angry about higher property taxes to compensate for lessened state aid. The residents have finally started stripping their apathy towards the corrupt system.
It seems that education budgets are no longer held as something inviolable in the state of New Jersey. Motivated by that fact, New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the education cartel like no previous holder of his office has done before. Although it would facilitate the resolution of this issue if he were to tackle it with the same gusto and assertiveness he shows on the other issues he is undertaking.
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 also does a good job of presenting statistics comprehensively without compromising the facts. The film presents statistics on tax revenues, government spending on education, New Jersey educational outcomes as compared to educational outcomes of other states, etc.
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 movie critic for the New York Times, describes the scene as a result of the movie director's "emotional coercion," and goes on to saying that the weeping child as "another tiny victim of public school hell," as if not being chosen to get a good education is something trivial.
I like to think that it would be unlikely for anyone without any personal or political stake in the cartel's control over the education system to watch that particular scene without being moved. Although it is not something new for both students and teachers to fall victim to a system that does not allow teaching and learning to take place in many schools, the way the director presents his points seem like nobody has yet to act on the activities of the cartel. The sad fact is that these activities contribute to the increasing cases of students leaving school unprepared to work in the real world.
Since the movie came out, people have finally started making efforts to keep themselves informed about how more funding for public schools has helped in buttressing their failures. Shortly after publishing Jeannette Catsoulis' review on the documentary, New York Times reported that a record number of residents of New Jersey rejected 58% of the budgets during the school-budget elections. They resented the teachers' unions for not concurring to concessions and were angry about higher property taxes to compensate for lessened state aid. The residents have finally started stripping their apathy towards the corrupt system.
It seems that education budgets are no longer held as something inviolable in the state of New Jersey. Motivated by that fact, New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the education cartel like no previous holder of his office has done before. Although it would facilitate the resolution of this issue if he were to tackle it with the same gusto and assertiveness he shows on the other issues he is undertaking.
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 also does a good job of presenting statistics comprehensively without compromising the facts. The film presents statistics on tax revenues, government spending on education, New Jersey educational outcomes as compared to educational outcomes of other states, etc.
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 had interesting points. A film by Bob Bowdon.
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