Re: Just what we need

[QCao009@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/13/2007 9:13:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
taunar@plateautel.net writes:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071213/EDITORIAL/1
12130005

Advice  from Roy Romer and Newt Gingrich. It's pathetic. Obviously they do 
not read  Bracey or Rothstein or anything that challenges the conventional 
wisdom. Look  at these snips, just weak paraphrases of ANAR:

"America is falling  behind its global competitors and the economic security 
of our children is at  risk."

"If an American corporation produced such mediocre outcomes,  then the CEO 
would be fired immediately. Yet, American schools continue to  churn out 
below-average students with no fear of  consequences."



A big "if" which is baseless.  No, our corporations do not fire the  CEO.  We 
give him a golden parachute and send him to the next corporation  to practice 
the same shill.  We reelect the same Yale MBA-bought exec to be  the 
deciderator for another 4 yrs.  The schools are just a reflection of  our social mores 
and our values no longer value knowledge and education.  
 
The BOLD thinking that the Bush family pushes is accountability based  on 
testing ?  Roy and Newt as education experts?  Was Bennett not  available to make 
up the three stooges ? May be we can give Roy and Newt some  costumes and try 
them out for lion tamers in our next reality show.  That  should connect with 
the next gen a whole lot more than the boogey child from  another country.  
Even if we accept the premise that America is "falling  behind", everything 
these whiners suggested is pushing us further down.
 
Quan
 





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