Comments on: William Ayers, Still Inspiring Angry Blog Commenters

By: Nine Ways to Fix Redroom.com « Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes

Nine Ways to Fix Redroom.com « Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:25:04 +0000

[...] reading from Payback, her cultural study of debt. Also worth looking into: William Ayers makes his controversial appearance at Busboys & Poets on Monday; the National Press Club Book Fair brings a few dozen authors, [...]

By: Jason Cherkis

Jason Cherkis — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:11:27 +0000

Arclight–any proof Ayers has been a bust as an education reformer? Send me a link.

By: Sherman Oaks

Sherman Oaks — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:53:24 +0000

Arclight–your anti-intellectual spirit should be admired! Ayers isn’t basking. You should read the New Yorker piece on him filed recently online. He’s not basking.

By: Arclight

Arclight — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:09:14 +0000

How pathetic – only two comments on your blog, one of which you posted…and not even in response to my primary point that Ayers is far from being a successful school reformer.

This blog should have a soundtrack of crickets chirping…

By: Mark Athitakis

Mark Athitakis — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:30:56 +0000

Sure, Arclight—there’s no better way to attract boatloads of attention than to be a policy wonk about inner-city public schools. Puts you at the top of the news all day, every day.

But, as my colleague Mr. McKenna would say, thanks for playing the feud….

By: Arclight

Arclight — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:54:11 +0000

Aside from this guy being scum in general, why would anyone look to him as an expert on education? Check out how well he’s succeeded at improving urban education in Chicago – that would be “not at all.” But that’s the great thing about being a college professor – you don’t have to actually accomplish anything, you just have to attract attention. Kind of like running for president.