An Interview with John Taylor Gatto (Teacher of the Year (New York ...

said this scheme of the agents of the Rockefeller family was nonsense.
There were dozens of editorials in the Times against it. Meanwhile there
were 200 Jewish school children thrown in jail. Maybe if the Jewish
community was reminded of this piece of history, they would think twice
about certain things that are happening right now and use their political
clout to effect change. This is the second or third attempt to ensure the
system is total and comprehensive. The mayor of New York, who was going to
run for President, was then thrown out of office in the next election, the
whole political regime that had installed the Gary school system was thrown
out of office. This information came from a book written 15 years ago by
Diane Ravitch called The Great School Wars.
Willard Wirt, the school superintendent, who had pioneered the system in
Gary, was lionized by the New York Times and other important press lords,
as one of the Solomon‟s of the 20 th
century, who came to New York to
personally oversee the installation of his system in 1917. In 1930, Willard
Wirt was committed to an insane asylum in Washington, DC where he died
two years later, quietly. He was committed because he began to make public
speeches saying that he had been part of a world-wide conspiracy to bring
about a controlled state in the hands of certain people. And on the basis of
making those statements he was committed and then died two years later in
an insane asylum. I find it interesting that Diane Ravitch, a very intelligent
woman with time and research assistance on her hands, could dig up the
whole story of the Gary plan and what happened in New York City and not
that little coda about the creator of the Gary plan and his claim …