Re: Internecine Testing Industry Warfare

[Jedoyon@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/7/03 7:57:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, ALCAMUS36@aol.com 
writes:


> The big question is why should anyone 
> have to work under such conditions with so much money available?  

Exactly!!!  Follow the money.  There's plenty of it, but it's in the hands of 
the power hungry state superintendents, who pass it along to education 
service districts who pass it along to administrators at the district level-- 
if it doesn't go directly from the state super to the testing, curriculum, 
and professional development companies who feed off each other.  I wasn't 
kidding about the 65% profit bragged about in an email of a state education 
dept.bottom feeder.  Education is a lucrative business.  And we haven't even 
touched upon the school improvement specialists.  Retire/rehire is a 
wonderful thing.  Helps fill all those new administration positions.

We have no paper for the copy machine, but we have airfare for the state 
super and all her cronies to fly all over creation to take input to an 
accountability plan based on testing the children who have no paper and 
books.  Oh, and those expensive slicky pamphlets, postcards and video tapes 
mailed out by the Partnership for Learning are ever so helpful in building 
buy-in to the business take-over of our schools.  Now you got it.  It's 
backassward but well-planned nonetheless.

Juanita
ps want some buttons Christina?  I've never sent you any, have I?