Re: Request for Help

[Humes-Schulz <humes-schulz@ATTBI.COM>]

Margaret and Carol:

jeesh....i feel like an absolute idiot.  i had NO IDEA this kind of stuff
was going on in schools.  That website is the scariest thing I have ever
read.  I'll betcha that those top 10 child beating states also have the
highest % of kids incarcerated.  And the lowest rates of educational
achievement (when measured by something remotely respectable).  Kids can be
beaten in Texas for parking in the wrong parking place.

Holy shit.  I am appalled.

Kathie (the most naive person around here)

-----Original Message-----
From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List
[mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Margaret Davis
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:48 PM
To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
Subject: Re: Request for Help


KATHIE.....

Why aren't we fighting this????  SHIT  That's what we're doing.

Can you imagine if HR1 had passed without revision.  There was a corporal
punishment clause in there under the guise it protected teachers for hitting
kids.

Jordan is helping educate:
http://nospank.net/tox-tx.htm

Please visit his whole website:
http://www.nospank.net/toc.htm

you'll find the certified letter from the Alvin Director of Admin services
there too.  Jordan's support for me in the uniform fight is immeasurable.

jordan is the one who designed the  "When Reason Slumbers Monsters Dance"
button that was also a BIG hit in San Antonio.


Margaret
~~~~~~
http://aisdinuniforms.org

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State
comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from
which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him
accordingly.
-- Civil Disobedience [aka Resistance to Civil Government]
                        Henry David Thoreau

----- Original Message -----
From: "Humes-Schulz" <humes-schulz@ATTBI.COM>
To: <ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Request for Help


> I am simply stunned.  My husband thinks I am the most naive person in the
> universe, but it never dawned on me that there was a single state in the
> union in which it's okay to hit kids in schools.  More wrinkles on the
Texas
> miracle -- I understand the Alvin wars better.  On the Texas listserv was
a
> note from a senior who was paddled -- paddling an 18 year old?  These are
> the adult role models in Texas?
>
> Holy cow (I am learning to cenosr myself in preparation for joining
> TexasTeachersNet)!  Why aren't you guys fighting this?  I'd let a school
> test my kid before they could touch my kid.
>
> Forever dumbfounded,
>
> Kathie (who has never hit anyone....yet)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List
> [mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Carol Holst
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 9:02 PM
> To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Request for Help
>
>
> I wish I could tell you that you misunderstood.
>
> Humes-Schulz wrote:
> >
> > Carol:
> >
> > I just spent some time reading these...a very depressing picture indeed.
> > One teacher referred to "CP" in the classroom.  Corporal punishment?
It's
> > okay to hit kids in the classroom?  Please tell me I misunderstood.
> >
> > Kathie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List
> > [mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Carol Holst
> > Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 11:19 AM
> > To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU
> > Subject: Request for Help
> >
> > Dear ARNers,
> >
> > If you have a few minutes your help is needed and appreciated. The Texas
> > teacher chatboard is a pretty good barometer for how things are going in
> > our schools here. They are dismayed, angry, and horrified at the new
> > testing requirements. Their voices  are loud and clear. Some are
> > interested in organizing but they all need encouragement and support.
> > Please take the time to go there and let them know they are not alone.
> > And let them know that collectively they can be powerful.
> >
> > Please do this. Texas is the model for the country. If you can't do this
> > and your state's schools go to test-preppin' pot, don't come crying to
> > me. ;-)
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > http://texas.teachers.net/chatboard
> > --
> > See you at The Soapbox!
>
>
> --
> See you at The Soapbox!
>
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