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

[QCao009@aol.com]

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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