Re: FairTest reaction to Sec Spellings announcement of nclb 'differen...

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Madeline Will testified before the  Aspen Commission as a mother of a 
child with special needs and as an officer of a national organization 
that advocates for such children.  She testified that NCLB had been the 
best thing for the education of children with special needs in a long 
time.  She specifically mentioned as benefits precisely the NCLB 
requirements that this list hates: high standards for all children and 
accountability to back them up.

You may as well blame NCLB for the cold winters in Chicago and the hot 
summers in Florida for all the relevance to NCLB of your loony 
conspiracy theories.

Art

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Sent: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 7:07 am
Subject: Re: [arn-l] FairTest reaction to Sec Spellings announcement of 
nclb 'differen...



In a message  dated 3/20/2008 9:47:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Csubstance@aol.com  writes:

Ignoring  Art's usual nonsense (I had to read it, since it was tagged 
here),
for  disabled children, NCLB in Chicago has been depriving them of
opportunities, not enhancing same.
George:

Your statement is not anecdotal.  It is universal.  What's  paraded and 
spun
as "choice" for ESE and minority children, the target of  their 
campaign to
deceive, has actually hurt and is continuing to hurt these  children.

Parents are given "scholarships" to enroll their children in private  
schools
and trumped up charters only to find the conditions much worse at those 

schools.  The majority of ESE students have either gone back, kept at 
home  and
home schooled or been pushed out.  Ask most parents in Florida and you  
will
hear stories about waiting lists for services.  IDEA, like NCLB, is  
another
underfunded mandate without teeth.  Once the privatizing machine  gets 
connected

to the nepotism of faith-based connections, any illusion for a  
meaningful
education for children went out the window.  Of course, there is  a 
fix-all:
you
can buy Neil Bush's software and prepare yourself for any  test brought 
to you
by NCLB.

The campaign to deceive has not stopped:  our legislature are now  
pushing
two bills, one to outlaw the use of any FCAT tutoring system, and the  
other,
just as profoundly perverse, to cut back on property taxes used to fund 
K-12.
They get you coming and going, and we continue to identify ourselves  
with our
abusers !!!

Quan

PS My Delete button works great.  I don't even read the tag  lines.



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