this is no surprise.

the so called "progressives" who jumped on the teacher-bashing bandwagon during the recent
teachers strike in Chicago aren't going to go out of their way to go to/pay for a movie
regarding the subject

Everyone had to know they were making a RW propaganda film, after all.

They are both SAG-Aftra members, but they are doubling down in the face of criticism from educators.

ladies. I am sick of teacher bashing. they deserved this fail

picketing this... by all accounts .... moronic film, have their kids in.... well, what exactly? Private schools? Posh leafy-green suburban public schools? They were falsely portraying themselves as NYC PS parents? What, on earth, is she talking about? Private school parents are really going to picket a film that trashes the public schools they themselves have... rightly or wrongly... spurned? Well to do suburbanites are going to take the train in from Scarsdale, or wherever, at night, so they can annoy Viola Davis by pretending to be NYC PS parents?

2. Gyllenhaal... if she is to be taken literally... appears to think that all teachers are organized into one "teachers union". It's not an "anti-union" movie but "there are huge problems with the teachers union". She just spent what sounds like a number of months on the set with Davis yet has no idea what Davis' views are re. politics and unionism?

Sounds like they both gave a great deal of political and philosophical thought to the complexities of the issues facing public schools and the efforts of government and private corporations to "reform" them.

Sheeezz. Seems to me the only thing dumber than the movie was the cast itself.

quote from page 2 of the story:

... the American people.

A bitter but ( i hope) valuable life lesson for these effete, arrogant , insulated elitists.

Given the choice, I'd rather pay to see Josie and the Pussycats. At least that wasn't contemptibly dishonest and manipulative.

is a nice double-whammy too. Can we hope that union-bashing is becoming less trendy?

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I hope those anti union fuckers choke on their puke! For 30 years now the repukes have been working to create a climate hostile to public education and teachers in general...what they've expoited is the fact that we have a lot of jealous people in this nation.. yes, teachers get 40K-70K a year, but they've earned it. 5+ years of education after college and managing a classroom and filling children full of knowledge. If you want their benefits, get off your ass, go to college and get a teaching degree...other wise shut your fucking uneducated trap. GO TEACHER UNIONS!!! and btw: I'm not a teacher!

Thank you!!

and thank you from a retired teacher.

if they can destroy public education then the road is open for their for-profit schools. Then only the rich kids will get a high quality education.

UNIONS built the wealthiest and most upwardly mobile Working/Middle Class the WORLD has ever seen.
The decline of the Middle Class is directly connected to the crushing of Organized LABOR by the 1% of both Parties.

because most people would fail to get it. For those who haven't seen it, it's really a pretty biting critique of corporate branding and the big-label music industry.

I love it when I get to see it in action.