Celebrity: Another Movie Star Betrays Public Education

Oh, no!  First it was Brooklyn actress Maggie Gyllenhall, who agreed to star in a movie about frustrated parents and the parent trigger.  

Now it's Meryl Streep, who's donating funds to a Central Falls (RI) school -- a charter school.  Yes, Meryl Streep!  

It's called Segue, and it serves middle school students, and you can read more here. Let the boycott begin now.

Comments

[Paul Bruno]

[insert Sophie's Choice joke here]

[Tom Hoffman]

They can use the help since they came out in "Warning" status in RIDE's new classifications.

[CarolineSF]

Am I unbanned yet?

Celebrities fall for this crap all the time -- after all, they aren't education policy experts, and the propaganda about the so-called miracles of so-called reform is powerful.

Hollywood star Viola Davis stood with the teachers of Central Falls HS -- her alma mater -- when they were all fired in the ultimate "reform" triumph. But then she too donated to a charter, maybe the same one that has sweet-talked Streep; and then of course is starring in "Won't Back Down" an upcoming reform propaganda flick.

We "reform" challengers aren't actually all that boycott-happy. We tend to rely on rebutting propaganda with the truth as our most effective weapon.

Here's my response to the "Won't Back Down" trailer, by the way. A reporter told me that the filmmakers' rebuttal to my response is that it's not valid because it's only the trailer and not the movie.

http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2012/05/wont-back-down-propaganda-flick-truth-vigilante-time/

[Sarah]

Typical experiment-with-education publicity stunt, as it reads to me. I’d be more okay with the practice if the celebrities donating so much money bothered to do their homework and support causes not sold to them, but ones they believe in after research.