Re: Orchestrated Blame Game Signals End Times for NCLB?

[aburke5054@aol.com]

 Well, if I'm right, I'm right. If you think I'm wrong, deal with that, instead of just yelling
 "So are you" at me. 
 
 Art
   
  -----Original Message-----
 From: leoecasey@optonline.net
 To: arn-l@interversity.org
 Sent: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 7:58 AM
 Subject: Re: [arn-l] Orchestrated Blame Game Signals End Times for NCLB?
 
  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." 



----- Original Message -----



> 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



   
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