Re: on privatization and accountability

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/18/2006 1:00:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
Cbgord@aol.com writes:

I've been good and have refused to rise to Art's bait for about a year  now. 
But his question here--even if raised in a purely rhetorical context and  
manner--is a good one, so I'll answer it. His questions are: If you think that  
NCLB is "punishing" schools, what would you do differently?  What  fundamental 
changes would you make?
 
My answer is the same one I've posted to this list before, but it bears  
repeating in answer to this question. Here is the vision for education put  
forward by the Oakland Education Association last year, pointing to the  fundamental 
changes required to achieve real excellence and equality in  education.
 



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There is no conflict between your list and NCLB. In fact your state could  
adopt everything on your list as means of meeting its responsibilities  under 
NCLB. I suspect that those are the kinds of constructive responses  that NAACP 
had in mind when it argued in federal court that CT should meet  its 
responsibilities under NCLB.  I'm sure that you haven't been wasting  your time railing 
against NCLB out of some mistaken notion that NCLB  somehow stands in the way 
of attaining everything on your  list.

Finally, trying to enlist Martin Luther King in your  ludicrous Marxist 
assault on corporations is a distortion of what he  actually said and stood for, a 
disservice to his memory, makes you look  ridiculous, and does your cause no 
good at all.  Jettison that ridiculous  baggage.
 

Art