Rahm uses "The Producers" (mostel flick) game plan on Chicago schools

[Hannah Bell]

I am going to look at an exciting new trend coming out of Chicago that I am referring to as the Bialystock Method or Producerism. This shrewd move by Mayor elect Rahm Emanuel far surpasses anything I have seen elswhere.

To understand the Bialystock Method, you must do yourself a favor and go rent the original 1968 version of Mel Brooks' classing movie The Producers... In The Producers, Gene Wilder plays a mild-mannered accountant named Leo Bloom and Zero Mostel plays a washed up old theatrical producer named Max Bialystock. In doing Max's books, Leo discovers that you could actually make more money by making a flop than a hit. If you sold, for example, 1500% of a show and it closed in one night, none of those share holders would expect any kind of payment. The trick was finding a play so horrible it was sure to be a huge bomb...

In The Chicago Public Schools the mayor has total control and he appoints his own rubber stamp school board.... the board is almost entirely made up of people who donate heavily to the Mayor. What's interesting is that much of the leadership that Rahm Emanuel has used for guidance have been the operators of Chicago's charter schools. These people offer alternatives to the Chicago Public Schools and the worse the schools do the more they thrive. The more they thrive, the more money they can direct to Mayor Rahm. The Key is how to make sure the public schools bomb?

Bialystock and Bloom begin an exhaustive search that finally nets them a play called Springtime for Hitler, which is possibly the worst play ever.... Rahm Emanuel and his team begain an exhaustive search that finally nets them Rochester Superintendent Jean Claude Brizard, who is possibly the worst Superintendent ever. In a district 1/10 the size of Chicago Brizard managed to get sued 3 times, have a 95% no confidence vote from the teachers, and newspaper poll found 60% of the district's administrator's thought they were on the wrong track. The only accomplishment he could point to were graduation rates which was actually data from before his tenure....

http://laststand4children.blogspot.com/2011/05/myron-miner-on-chicago-public-schools.html

[madrchsod]

1. the democrats in this state totally fucked the teachers unions...

we put the bastards in control and they fucked the teachers and the funding of community based special needs facilities. community based special needs are being cut 9% which means that "clients" will have less and my wife won`t get a pay raise for another year. this will make it 4 years without a pay raise. i`m not sure what the afscme union is going to do next year but from the emails we are getting they are pissed off at the very people we put in office.

there`s more links on this bullshit but this is a good summation..

http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2011/05/late-friday-fus.html