Frank McCourt Quotes
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
The mayor had eliminated an independent Board of Education and obtained more control of the Chicago Public Schools and instituted long needed reforms.
Many argued that it had been tried and found wanting. Mr. Chubb’s company had been awarded many contracts to operate public schools in competition with the school board. A number of these were cancelled or not renewed based on a perception of poor competitive performance.
Oliver was a right wing, racist, fanatic and extremist. His quotations are interesting because he often said in public what many right wing extremists only said in private. Paranoia and conspiracy theories were common with the extremists, then as now. In this case, they actually believed that Communists had infiltrated and taken over the 30,000 different school districts in the United States.
This was his explanation of why so many school board bond issues are voted down. Others point out that this happens in communities where faith has not been lost but the citizens simply do not think the community can afford the expense or the effect on the community’s credit rating.
In many eras in many countries, there have been major complaints about the quality of the pre-college education. This statement is typical of many made in 2010 America about the public schools. The term “public schools” in Engand refers to what we call private schools. In 1830, there were few pubic schools in the American sense of free, government operated schools.
Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
