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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on September 04, 2011, 09:41:39 PM
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Sep-05-11 02:37 AM
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No Child Left Behind: A conspiracy against public education that too few called out
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I hope the generation of teachers and administrators that follows has learned something from the failure of our generation to ward off those determined to destroy public education. We didn’t stand up to be counted, we didn’t stand in the schoolhouse door and tell them they couldn’t do that to our kids, and we didn’t educate the public about what a gigantic failure another one size fits all education policy would be. In the words of that great educator and philosopher Jimmy Buffet: “Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.â€
We have all been left behind.
more . . . http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/08/31/no-ch...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1877521
For some odd reason Bush is to blame for the Chappaquiddick Lady Killer's signature education bill.
I guess we can add history to the list of subjects she's not qualified to teach.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1877521
For some odd reason Bush is to blame for the Chappaquiddick Lady Killer's signature education bill.
I guess we can add history to the list of subjects she's not qualified to teach.
So, did proud2blah-blah-blah's school fail this year?
It would explain the hostility.
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My favorite line:
we didn’t educate the public about what a gigantic failure another one size fits all education policy would be.
p2b apparently has a hard time educating anyone. :-)
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My favorite line:
p2b apparently has a hard time educating anyone. :-)
Obvious, sir.
Stupid scrunt doesn't seem to learn anything herself.
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Uh huh.
The Die alte Sau disremembers her history.
It was Vast Teddy who, in the mid-1970s, thought of the NCLB thing, and he pushed it hard.
But nobody was interested; even when the Democrats had a near-veto-proof Congress during the late 1970s, Vast Teddy couldn't garner support for his idea.
And then during the 1980s, well, Reagan was in the White House, and then Bush.
During the first two years of the Clinton administration, 1993-1995, when the Democrats had again a near-veto-proof Congress, Vast Teddy couldn't get anybody excited about it. And then of course when Congress changed hands in 1995, there was even less excitement about it.
Vast Teddy got nowhere with his pet idea for 25 ****ing years, many of those years when the Democrats had substantial majorities in Congress (or at least one house).
Then comes the second George Bush, a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.
During the spring and summer of 2001, wanting to make nice-nice with Vast Teddy, to get some brownie points with the squalid dropsical one, George Bush decided to do him a kindness, thinking that would make the obese fat one more friendlier towards him.
So George Bush pushed Vast Teddy's NCLB, in unison with the Massachusetts blimp; they worked together.
It was a hard sell, among both Republicans and even liberal Democrats. Nobody wanted it.
But George Bush twisted a whole lot of rigid arms, and got it passed.
Vast Teddy sat side-by-side with George Bush as he signed the bill; it was on television and everything, Vast Teddy being hailed as the genius who'd created NCLB.
That was in August 2001, when that happened.
Something else happened in September 2001 that sort of put the previous event into the shadow or eclipse or totally forgotten.
But it was Vast Teddy's bill, not George Bush's.
As events later transpired, it became obvious that Vast Teddy didn't believe in returning favors. George Bush got to like him, but Vast Teddy still hated George Bush.
That appearance by Vast Teddy in the White House the summer of 2001, just before 9/11, was the last time Vast Teddy was ever in the White House until the Magic One moved in. For eight years, he wasn't invited to waddle in, probably the longest time a Kennedy hadn't made a shadow in the Executive Mansion.
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proud2b claims "one size fits all education" doesn't work. Well, fantastic! Don't ALL children, regardless of who their parent's are or how much money they have, deserve the same education? The entire public school system is failing when children in Plano, TX have the opportunity for a better education than children in the Bronx, NY. Being a military family, we have seen radical differences in public education as we move from area to area. I would love to see national standards in education that are fairly measured instead of this NCLB mess.
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proud2b claims "one size fits all education" doesn't work. Well, fantastic! Don't ALL children, regardless of who their parent's are or how much money they have, deserve the same education? The entire public school system is failing when children in Plano, TX have the opportunity for a better education than children in the Bronx, NY. Being a military family, we have seen radical differences in public education as we move from area to area. I would love to see national standards in education that are fairly measured instead of this NCLB mess.
NCLB has done some great things already. For instance, the school system that kept passing my son on up the grades despite everything I did to call their attention to his reading problems bombed so horribly in the first couple years of NCLB that they had to completely revise their curriculum from Pre-school on. I most seriously doubt this was the only system that discovered their own inadequacies when fairly compared to the surrounding schools on a state-wide basis. (And yes, NCLB is state controlled, each state sets their own standards and writes their own tests.)
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Right you are coach here is the photo:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act.jpg)
Note Dead Ted, George Miller, and, John Bohner along with the ear of Judd Gregg (obscured by Bohner).
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The truth? The teacher unions killed public education.