Re: Supreme Court narrows free speech for public employees

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From: Peter Campbell <campbellp@mail.montclair.edu>
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Sent: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:45:19 -0500
Subject: [arn-l] Supreme Court narrows free speech for public employees

  Right now, all across the country, there are teachers, principals, 
and public school administrators who are wrestling with their 
consciences. Do they stick their necks out, risk being fired or demoted 
or placed in some dingy backwater, and talk about what is going on in 
public schools under No Child Left Behind? Or do they bite their 
tongues and hope that things will get better? ...
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Paranoids are always in high gear. The No Child Left Behind Act 
requires states to improve their schools until all their children meet 
high standards. It's clear that because of NCLB states are doing some 
loopy things (as if states weren't doing loopy things before NCLB).  
It's also clear, to those who do not share your howling hysteria, that 
if NCLB really were responsible for the apocalyptic consequences you 
claim, the NAACP would not, for example, be arguing in court that 
states should meet their responsibilities under NCLB.  And, really, if 
NCLB were destroying public schools, wouldn't parents and kids be 
speaking out all over the place, whether or not school staff members 
were cowering in fear of the NCLB Speech Police?

Art