Arguing with the wing-nuts in a 140 characters or less.

My brother Mike hilariously describes an exchange between Fordham’s house wing-nut Mike Petrilli, the glorious Diane Ravitch and himself on Twitter. The subject is privatization of public education. The topic is serious. The points are sharply made. But it’s all done in the 140 character format of Twitter.

Somehow Diane Ravitch and I ended up in a Twitter skirmish today with the Fordham Institute’s Mike Petrilli. Petrilli is claiming that there’s no privatization of public schools going on. Being a protege of conservative think-tank guru Checker Finn, he has learned the art of defining his way out of arguments, playing word games instead of getting to the heart of the matter. I already knew this going in, but bit anyway.