Re: MCLB "Anniversary?" Millions of children left

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

No, I said that because of NCLB we started new programs.  I did not say
that there was no help for struggling students before NCLB - that's what
ESEA has been for the past 37 years.  Art

>>> rparkany@borg.com 01/09/03 09:35AM >>>
Art: you claimed all this stuff was due to the &%$# legislation in your
first posting.

In your words:
	*  ...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...  * (Art Burke, this thread: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:00:05
-0800)

GimmeABreeeeeak and quite triffling & triviaizing the discourse, as
others have asked. This is quite
important underneath whatever glibness you can muster: repect the
*thinking* and *discourse* the
correspondents make here, and at least presume they intend to take you
seriously and fairly. whether
or not you can respect their persons...	;-} rap.

Art Burke wrote:
> 
> I said, "Some dynamite principal."  You copied that below.  And, by
the
> way, it is "NCLB."
> 
> Art
> 
> >>> rparkany@borg.com 01/09/03 04:37AM >>>
> No, Art: like you said the FIRST time you posted on this tripe:
*Some
> dynamite LNCB*...       ;-} rap.
> 
> Art Burke wrote:
> >
> > The "jobs" are things that are done around the school every day.
> What
> > makes them special is the ownership and pride that the child gets
> from
> > having the job - some of that comes from the ritual the principal
> puts
> > into place for getting it - the application, the references, the
> > waiting, and so on; some of it comes from the fact that everybody
> > respects the work.  There is no failure and a kid is never denied
> the
> > chance to work his or her job - if homework is not done, or the
kid
> is
> > late, he or she still gets to do his job.  I don't think that
large
> gobs
> > of time are involved.
> >
> > Like I said, some dynamite principal.
> >
> > Art
> >
> > >>> ecrump@interversity.org 01/08/03 04:09PM >>>
> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Art Burke wrote:
> > > Principal was telling me about the "Job Corps" she started in
her
> > > elementary school.
> >
> > This sounds interesting. What kind of jobs were they? Do they have
> some
> >
> > kind of training program for doing the jobs (I don't mean,
> necessarily,
> >
> > some kind of programmatic training; could be just one kid who
knows
> a
> > job
> > helping the next kid learn how to do it). How much of the school
day
> do
> >
> > the work of the jobs take up? What kind of recognition do kids
get?
> >
> > Maybe these are questions you can't answer. I realize you only
heard
> > about
> > this from the person who initiated it. Just curious is all.
> >
> > --Eric Crump
> >
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