Re: Poverty

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

How bizarre and ridiculous can you get?  You may as well blame  NCLB if the 
roads aren't good in poor neighborhoods.  NCLB does what  federal education law 
should do:  It establishes a contract with the  states that requires them to 
improve their schools, particularly the schools  that serve large numbers of 
poor and minority children.  Do you  really think that the NAACP would petition 
a federal court to enforce the letter  and spirit of NCLB if it thought that 
NCLB were hurting poor and minority  children?
 
Education law is not the vehicle to address nutrition, housing,  and health 
care.  Arguing that  NCLB is flawed because  it does not fix problems in those 
areas is demagogic, scandalous, and  despicable.    
 
Art
 
In a message dated 6/24/2006 4:28:59 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
campbellp@mail.montclair.edu writes:

What,  exactly, does NCLB do about poverty?
- It erects a system of carrots and  sticks that diverts money away  
from Title 1 schools when they fail  to meet its one-size-fits-all  
measures.
- Whether intentional or  not, it dumbs down the curriculum,  
particularly for poor kids in  urban schools.

What, exactly, does NCLB do about inadequate healthcare  for poor people?
Nothing.

What, exactly, does NCLB do about  insufficient housing for poor people?
Nothing.

What, exactly, does  NCLB do about reducing class size in overcrowded  
urban  schools?
Nothing.

What, exactly, does NCLB do about segregated  schools in the inner-city?
Nothing.

In the end, the law hurts the  very children it was ostensibly  
designed to help. How, then, can a  law called "No Child Left Behind"  
Leave So Many Children  Behind?