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He's an actor, a very good one, but an actor.
I fail to see how his visage holds more weight than an actual educator beyond his celebrity.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Q6jI_blog.html
Here is the speech that actor Matt Damon gave today to thousands of teachers, parents and others who attended the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House to protest the Obama administration’s education policies that are centered on standardized tests.
He also had a run in with some reporter who asked him a stupid question.
http://www.sheknows.com/entertainmen...rter-a-new-one
He's an actor, a very good one, but an actor.
I fail to see how his visage holds more weight than an actual educator beyond his celebrity.
Being raised by a early childhood teacher myself too, I couldn't agree more with what he said. Standardized tests are ridiculous and worthless. Making then a major benchmark to provide funding is beyond re ed.
Well, you might be aware, but typically in our society being a celebrity gives you a platform normal citizens do not have. Obviously his message should be analyzed on whether or not it has merit but its obvious why Matt Damon saying something is always going to carry more weight than Joe Schmoe.
I saw the run in he had with the reporter and camera man last night.Good for Matt Damon for standing up for people and doing what he can to serve. Awesome.
Teachers are overpaid.
Not arguing it, just wasting posts pointing out the undeserved platform of celebrity, no matter how right (or wrong).
An MBA.. Exec.. if his company is failing he gets booted. If a teachers classroom is doing poorly, they get celebrities defending them.
Ok, read the transcript and watched the interview.
He pretty much nailed it and the "interview" sealed it.
Hmm, while I see the point youre trying to make, it isnt really all that true.
CEO's get booted, yes, but slowly. Best part is the severance package they get on the way out.
Regardless, they are not in the same arena of comparison though. One is paid by the private sector, the other the public.
Privatize education, then compare.
Isn't the average teacher's salary about 60K/year?
I think the national averge is somewhere between 45K & 50K per year.
Isn't that in-line with the median household income?
Should it be?
He seems pleasant.
Apple, meet oranges.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yes, many get golden parachutes if they're fired at all. How many bank CEOs got booted when their company's were nearly had to liquidate during the banking crisis?
Is there anything Obama does to differentiate himself from Bush?
Does marrying a black chick count?
Obama's presidency is everything the conservatives wanted in the 1990's, but now it's socialism.
The operative word is "do". He isn't actually doing much differently except getting Osama. He's trying to "do" things differently, but the congress has pretty much stopped him dead in his tracks. Almost everything got filibustered in the Senate his first two years, and now the repugs own the House. The obstructionist party has won.
I'm trying to determine where the 'overpaid' is coming from. Granted, it might be an excercise in futility.
He needs to win an election without winning the popular vote, then have a massive bailout of Wall Street and I think they'll match up pretty well.
No, they are both wimps
Oh i get it.. thanks for illuminating that comparison. It's not as if there's a debate to privatize schooling as an effort to make education better.. okay. WIN
He pretty much thinks that teachers shouldn't be held accountable, and that because he's a hollywood actor it's like teaching or something. He even threw in his BAston populist drawl doused with certainity and every midwestern chode believes he is correct.
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