Re: MCLB "Anniversary?" Millions of children left

["Art Burke" <aburke@vansd.org>]

I did not say that struggling students never got extra help before NCLB
came along, in fact I said programs were already in place.  

Art 

>>> Jedoyon@aol.com 01/09/03 08:50AM >>>
In a message dated 1/9/2003 8:35:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
aburke@vansd.org writes:

> 
> I did not say that and that does not follow from what I did say.  
> 
> Art
> 
> >>>rparkany@borg.com 01/09/03 04:07AM >>>
> What in the hell does THIS have to do w/LNCB, Art??? Are you trying
to
> tyell us that the staff in
> your district was doing nothing special until this came about?

What you did say was:

"I have just completed a round of visits to four Vancouver schools
that
are implementing new approaches to helping struggling students.  While
the changes grow to some degree out of programs already underway, the
sole impetus for the extra attention to the needs of struggling
students
is NCLB."

This says, that without NCLB the struggling students weren't getting
extra 
attention.  99.9% of those who read this would make the assumption
that, as 
Rick says, "you [are]trying to
tyell us that the staff in your district was doing nothing special" for

struggling kids, until NCLB paved the way.  Maybe it's just that you
didn't 
explain your answer using words AND pictures?  NCLB may be like a WASL
math 
problem, if we're really lucky, we can get the wrong answer and still
get 
points if we explain ourselves well enough.  

Juanita
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