Something about Lisa

["Allen Flanigan." <Allen.Flanigan@USPTO.GOV>]

It sounds like you are dealing with one Lisa Leppin, who frequents the
ednews bulletin board.  Is her email tutor@voyager.net?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jedoyon@AOL.COM [SMTP:Jedoyon@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:33 PM
> To:   ARN-L@listsrva.CUA.EDU
> Subject:      Defending the cause...
>
> There's something about the name "Lisa" on these other lists, both
> sepschool
> and ed consumers.... very cranky! (I think they didn't win that spot on
> the
> cheerleading squad: That cutie pie, rah rah girl Keegan stole it!)
>
> At my suggestion that FairTest wants to free children, parents and
> teachers
> from high stakes tests, ed consumer Lisa wrote:
> << For those children & parents who want to be "free," I suggest paying
> for
> your own education.  For teachers who want to be "free," I suggest
> self-employment.
>  Wasteful tax dollars? I could think of a hundred other places to begin
> your
> search. >>
>
> My response:
>
> If you're saying that parents and children and teachers have no rights in
> their public education-- I object!  I pay taxes too.  Someone paid taxes
> for
> my public education and my parents'....  Public education is not free of
> waste, nor is it doing the best it can in the education of children.  If
> you
> think high stakes testing is the answer to all the educational trouble of
> the
> public education world, you are mistaken.  It is not cheap; it is not
> efficient; it is not effective.  The "teacher training" that is being
> touted
> to go along with it, is an even bigger travesty!  The committees and
> layers
> and study groups that go along with it are a joke!
>
> Do you think federal and state control will pave the way to educational
> justice and accountability in our local schools?
>
> I am not against accountability.  I simply believe that schools are
> accountable to their community, children and parents, not federal and
> state
> governments, business interests etc...  In turn, parents and children are
> accountable to their community for their use of public education.
> Bureaucracy is waste, in the majority of cases,  but apathy demands it.
> Every cent that is spent on testing, is not spent on needed improvements
> in
> education.  There are ample problems that glare in the eyes of parents and
> community members without revealing them through test scores, but local
> districts don't listen to their own customers, because the state and the
> feds
> and big business are calling the shots.  Strike up a conversation in any
> grocery line and you'll hear it.  We don't need no stinkin' test scores!
>
> Juanita Doyon
>
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