Click, Clack, Moo. Cows That Type...Ed reformer calls it union propaganda.

[madfloridian]

Run time: 09:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_kBLJIYEiI   Posted on YouTube: October 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: ninepoundful Views on YouTube: 50024   Posted on DU: December 04, 2011 By DU Member: madfloridian Views on DU: 2008

 
I just posted about the attack on Pre-K and kindergarten teachers for using this material with their children. One right wing funded ed reform group believes it is propagandizing for unions.

The latest right-wing loony accusation is delivered by Kyle Olson of the Michigan-based grouplet, the Education Action Group.

Olson parades around as a concerned parent of a kindergartener. But we have pointed out that the EAG is secretly funded, has close ties to the Koch brothers, Andrew Breitbart and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. The Mackinac Center has recently been exposed for secretly sending emails and lobbying Michigan legislators in violation of their non-partisan tax status.

Kyle also recently filed a Freedom of Information request for my personnel file. Exciting reading.

This week, Kyle went on Fox (surprise) to denounce the use of Click Clack Moo. Cows that Type to indoctrinate kindergarten students in pro-union ideology. He accused a Chicago teacher of sneaking the word, “negotiate,” into a vocabulary lesson.

Fred Klonsky's blog

I think the video and book are very special and deserved to be posted separately.

[pnwmom]

1. These people are out of their click-clacking brains!

The author must be having a laugh out of this situation.

:rofl:

[madfloridian]

5. I agree.

They are out of their minds, and the author must be enjoying this greatly. :-)

[pnwmom]

7. You might find this analysis interesting. Apparently lots of people

are thinking about Cronin's book:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027567/-Click,-Clack,-Moo:-Why-the-1-Always-Wins

As we explored Click, Clack, Moo recently, the adult members of the class told me they like Farmer Brown, with one student characterizing the striking farm animals as "mean." And here is where I felt the need to consider how this children's book helps us all confront the Occupy Wall Street movement as well as why the 1% continues to own the 99%.

One important element of the story is that the cows and chickens are female workers under the authority of the male Farmer Brown. These female workers produce for the farmer and remain compliant until the cows acquire the typewriter—both a powerful tool of literacy (the cows and chickens cannot effectively strike until they gain access to language) and a representation of access to technology (readers should note that the cows and chickens produce typewritten notes that show they find an old typewriter unlike the cleaner type produced by Farmer Brown).


SNIP

What tends to be missed in this story is that Farmer Brown ultimately wins; in fact, the barn animals appear to be eager to abandon their one access to power, the typewriter, for mere material items—the electric blankets as comfort many would see as a basic right and the diving board as frivolous entertainment.

The 1% have the 99% right where Farmer Brown has the barn animals—mesmerized by the pursuit of materialism and entertainment. Consider the recent hordes of consumers lined up to buy the new iPhone 4S, released on the cusp of the passing of Steve Jobs, heralded as a genius for his contribution to our consumer culture.

SNIP

[madfloridian]

8. Interesting summary. I missed that. "Trade our voices for things."

"We, the 99% who tend to remain silent and compliant, wait patiently for the next generation of technology to occupy our time, our lives reduced to work and amassing the ever-changing and out-dated things that become passe as the next-thing lures us further and further into our sheep lives.

Yes, if we remain eager to trade our voices for things, the 1% will always be the winners.

When we learn to treasure voice over things, however, the chickens may come home to roost."

Thanks for sharing.

[edgineered]

9. a most interesting analysis, pnwmom.

People like yourself, madfloridian, and DU'ers in general are inspiring. If EAG, etal were here on DU, they would be endorsing 'click, clack, moo'.


So from now on,

Dear 1%'ers, House, Senate, Capital Hill, Faux Snooze, etal

CLOSED TODAY.

No milk. No Eggs.

Return our typewriter - Duck acted as your active provocateur and paid lobbyist.

Request for removal of barbed wire rescinded; crows know your plan to replace it with dogs and pepper hedges.

The SHEEP

[edgineered]

2. a quite enjoyable video

While it should be difficult to imagine anyone finding fault with this video, seeing parallel political strategies in the 1% may mean my family gets 'click clack moo' t-shirts and hoodies this year!

[RainDog]

3. LOL

what these people object to is that parents and teacher REFUSE to brainwash kids.

incredible that they would go after this book.

what ASSHOLES!!!!

[tomg]

4. What a great video.

I honestly don't have a response to those people. I mean it is Fox.

[pnwmom]

6. It was based on a best selling picture book from years ago.

Kudos to Doreen Cronin, the author.

[anon-y-moose]

10. cute film..just ...enough__ to...tickle_ ...RIGHTWINGCRAZIEZZZZZZZZZ

[madfloridian]

11. It won a Caldecott award in 2001. Read the Amazon review page from 2000

and compare the recent comments on the right with the ones from years ago.

http://www.amazon.com/Click-Clack-Moo-Cows-That/dp/0689832133