When 21st-Century "Scapegoating" Strives to Strip Teachers of Due Process...

The NY Post featured an article Sunday entitled, "It's nearly impossible to fire tenured teachers."  They included the insulting picture above.  In twenty years, I have barely sat down in class except when sick, let alone, slept in class.  (Any teacher with experience knows:  if you assume the pose above, you've just made yourself a sitting duck for drone attacks, friendly and otherwise!)  I strongly doubt the woman above is a teacher, and she is surely not representative of teachers, yet the paper would have us believe so for its purposes of propaganda.  

I find the tactics used by the Post reprehensible.  The paper focuses on a few sensational stories as a basis to strip all teachers of their due-process rights.  

Here is an example of their tactics: 

Deven Black, librarian

Deven BlackPhoto: Facebook

Castle Hill MS, Bronx
Touched a 13-year-old girl and told her she “looked sexy” after being warned about making inappropriate comments to students.
30-day suspension

I was reminded of tactics used to scapegoat other groups in history:

Illustration from the antisemitic
children's book,The Poisonous
Mushroom, in which a Jewish man
is depicted as a child molester
attempting to lure German children
with candy
Courtesy of Randall Bytwerk. 

From http://www.thebreman.org/exhibitions/online/1000kids/propaganda.html

You find a few bad eggs or invent some.  Next, you whip up public emotions to a fervor with your propaganda.  Then, you begin to strip away the rights of the targeted group, slowly at first, as you test the waters, but then when little opposition is encountered, you gather steam.  

If some criminals escape justice because of their Fifth or Sixth Amendment rights, does that mean we should scrap the Bill of Rights?  If some Jew acts inappropriately, does that mean we must target an entire group?  I would say only if there is already an underlying hatred and a will to do wrong.  

I am not implying, by any means, that the educational deformers are Nazis or Jew haters.  I do wonder though if they studied fascist propaganda techniques to terrorize teachers en masse, most of whom have good hearts.  Teachers tend to value the rewards stemming from helping children over the big bucks of well-funded teacher haters who would brand the profession as one of perverts as a means by which to strip away due process rights.  Many of this circle of millionaires ultimately hope to privatize public education, opening up the possibilities for great profit.  If we do not meet their injustices head on, I ask myself, what have teachers really learned from history?