Re: [arn-l Digest] Vol. 3 No. 127 Messages: 15

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Question: "Why would they put something into operation that they honestly
thought would destroy the reputation of all public schools, if they wanted
to get re-elected in a few years or wanted to leave a legacy?"

Answer: Money.

Money and power corrupt a lot of well-intentioned and not so well-intended
people. The politicians have a lot of powerful interest groups leaning on
them. The "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" atmosphere of
political decision making is what makes American government and it's
political system  so universally renowned. If a given "decider" or policy
maker caves to the interests of powerful business influence, they have also
built into that choice a powerful promise of financial and political
support. Maybe it looks like a gamble to you but to me it looks like a
carefully considered financial speculation; a gamble, but with insider
information.

Annie

Anne E. Levin Garrison
Advocate for the survival of public education and gardener....


"What's wrong about teaching to the test is that life is not simply about
deriving a "right" answer. 
What is the right answer to being alive? What is the right answer to a
Rodin sculpture, a Da Vinci drawing 
or a Picasso painting? What is the right answer to the existence of the
universe, the language of whales, 
the process of entropy? What is the right answer to creativity, the
emotions of opera, 
the love we feel for each other?" --Peter Henry, Becoming Mr. Henry