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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: FW: Open Letter
Art, what you seem to be missing is how the law is getting interpreted at the local level. The goals of the law appear lofty and that's why you support it so strongly. However, insisting on 100% proficiency, including all severe needs sped students which the law requires, is as you would put it ludicrous. And to penalize schools because they cannot alter the cognitive functioning of certain students is also ludicrous. That's just one problematic area of the law. Throw in the corruption that has led to unscrupulous behavior from the top down to the classroom and you have a recipe for disaster. Making money off the backs of children is immoral. Moreoever, accountability is a two way street. If the people running the programs we are expected to implement are accountable to no one, how can we expect those in the classroom to be held accountable? Especially for things out of their control such as forced, regimented programs that focus on low level thinking skills that leave students ill equipped for the world while creating huge profits for select business men. All of us have a moral obligation to educate our children to be contributing members of society - to enable them to make the world a better place, as we ourselves try to. That's the bottom line and NCLB, Reading First isn't going to fit this bill... ----- Original Message ----- From: ABurke5054@aol.com<mailto:ABurke5054@aol.com> To: arn-l@interversity.org<mailto:arn-l@interversity.org> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [arn-l] FW: Open Letter In a message dated 11/19/2006 11:54:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, taunar@plateautel.net<mailto:taunar@plateautel.net> writes: I'm happy to be in the terminally deluded and hopelessly naive camp of knuckleheads. Boy, that er, "increased" funding for schools sure came with strings attached didn't it? More like a hangman's rope... ________________________________________________ The strings require states to provide intensive and sustained support for their schools until all their children reach proficiency. Only someone from the wacky world of ARN would call that a "hangman's rope." Art
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