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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Education and Politics VI
In a message dated 7/26/2006 4:19:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, pwmjoy@earthlink.net writes: ..Me: --- (Smiling in multi-lingual triumph!) Quod est veritas, Hippocriticus?.....er, I mean, what the heck is your name in this damn scene, oh, yeah, Anonyfullabull. (The impact of the question evaporates. Me looks over at the director. ) Why can't his name be Veritas Minimumibus, why not?... ___________________________________________________ Writing in the stream-of-consciousness worked pretty well for James Joyce. It does not work so well for you. Maybe you just don't have the cross-referencing thing down, and are getting confused in the same way you mixed up Harvard and the NAACP. In any event, NCLB requires states to pour resources into their schools and shake them up until all their students achieve at high levels. That seems to be driving you into a kind of frenzy, but it seems to me that reasonable people would think that is a great thing. Art
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