Re: Orchestrated Blame Game Signals End Times for NCLB?

[leoecasey@optonline.net]

And you are the mirror image of this list, with every bit as simple-minded a message as the one you claim to oppose -- just inverted. Which is why you continue here day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year -- while proclaiming "the horror, the horror." 

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> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:21:22 -0500
> From: aburke5054@aol.com
> To: arn-l@interversity.org
> Subject: Re: Orchestrated Blame Game Signals End Times for NCLB?
> Message-ID: <8C8E455CE0FA0A9-884-C274@FWM-D41.sysops.aol.com>
> 
> There is 
> nothing of an "orchestrated blame game" in the conference papers, 
> as should be clear to anyone who read them. They are in fact quite 
> balanced and sober in their assessments both of the strengths and 
> of the weaknesses of NCLB and they don't blame parents and teachers 
> at all. Many people on this list have such a schematized view of 
> the world that they say anything concerning public education that 
> comes under the cover of a conservative organization is part of a 
> plot to discredit public education (a "fascist" plot no less, 
> according to Schmidt, one of this list's resident fantasists. 
>  
> NCLB requires states to improve their schools until all their 
> children reach proficiency. The sad fact is that states are not 
> rushing in to make significant changes in their schools - for many 
> reasons - they don't know what to do, they don't want to take 
> responsibility, they don't want to spend more money, and they don't 
> want to rock any boats. Another sad fact is that many educators do 
> not want changes because they have selfish interests in keeping 
> things just the way they are or changing them only to benefit 
> themselves. I believe that with so much misinformation, 
> disinformation, distortion, and deceit being spread about NCLB, a 
> good part of it spread by the public education establishment 
> itself, that Americans are probably pretty confused about it. 
> However, there is no evidence that the American people believe that 
> public education is being "destroyed" and I believe they are going 
> to scoff at people who say that schools are doing all kinds of 
> ridiculous things and it is en
> tirely the fault of NCLB. 
>  
>  This list has only one message: That the only problems in 
> American schools are that they don't receive enough money and that 
> educational reform is driven by people who want to privatize public 
> education. Continuing this absurdity is a disservice not only to 
> parents and children, particularly parents and children who would 
> benefit most from improvements to schools, but also to public 
> education itself. 
>  Art