Re: Kennedy, Miller Work on NCLB Revisions

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Schmidt has argued elsewhere that teachers and principals are doing 
everything right and problems in schools only reflect problems within 
society.  How ridiculous can you get?  There are underlying problems 
with schools just as surely as there are underlying problems in 
society.  NCLB is far from perfect, but it has pushed public education 
to take responsibility where responsibility needs to be taken.  
Claiming that NCLB reflects a "corporate" attack on schools or equating 
it with Iraq is demagoguery, nothing more, and reflects only the 
disconnectedness and moral blindness of the people doing it.

Art

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From: Csubstance@aol.com

To: arn-l@interversity.org

Sent: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 6:13 am

Subject: Re: [arn-l] Kennedy, Miller Work on NCLB Revisions





July 17, 2007



Thanks for circulating the Boston Globe article on revising NCLB.



There is only one word to describe what Kennedy and Miller are trying 
to do.



Bullshit.



Abolition, not amelioration, is what's needed.



As long as No Child Left Behind continues, teacher bashing and attacks 
on

public schools have the full force of federal law. Nothing in the 
article even

mentions the dishonest attack on public schools from the Bush 
administration's

pushing of charter schools (from the State of the Union message this 
year to

New Orleans). There is no recognition that the underlying problems are 
societal,



not school.



Miller and Kennedy are both pushing a corporate "school reform" agenda 
that

is, at bottom, an attack on democratic public schools. They are trying 
to

preserve a part of the "Bush Legacy" that will, long term, have as 
terrible an

impact domestically as the Iraq War is having internationally.



Abolish NCLB.



Return to Chapter One.



End the doubletalk.



George Schmidt

Editor, Substance









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