Re: David Wasserman

[aburke5054@aol.com]

NCLB is "fascist?"  This must be an example of serious conversation 
about assessment that Monty tells me that ARN is about.

I think just about everybody would like to see significant changes to 
NCLB.  But only in the delusional world of ARN are NCLB's 
accountability provisions a "fascist" tool to privatize public 
education.  La Raza, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, and 
leading progressive and legal advocacy organizations support NCLB, in 
its widest outline if not in every detail.  Kind of hard to paint them 
and George Miller and Ted Kennedy as "fascists."  Except, of course, in 
the wild, wild world of ARN

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: pwmjoy@earthlink.net <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>
To: arn-l <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 7:07 am
Subject: [arn-l] David Wasserman

Please add my clapping hands to the applause for the actions of Mr. 
Wasserman.
In addition, add my hiss and boo to the hisses and boos response  
directed at a
a very silly reductionist who posted this: " Did he offer to reimburse 
the
taxpayers for the time that he was being paid for but not doing the 
work he was
assigned? His conscience didn't do that far, did it?" The taxpayer 
money wasted
yearly on the fascist NCLB which continues its role in the 
centralization of
political power in this crime riddled mendacious current administration 
ought to
be this off-the-cuff commentator's concern, not the heartless pretense 
of
concern for kids not served by the public schools and repettitive 
obsession with
the equally heartless Orwellian tagged NCLB. For sure, public schooling 
in
America is a wasteland for too many kids as described by Jonathan Kozol 
in Shame
of the Nation, but NCLB and the thought it represents perpetuates this 
wasteland
as Kozol also points out. The NAACP itself ha
 s come out for massive overhaul of this shameful law, howevermuch 
bi-partisan
was its original coming-in-to-being not unlike the shameful bi-partisan 
support
for the misnomered Patriot Act unread by most of those who signed on to 
it. Mr.
Wasserman took a bold step which I wish more of us would imitate but, 
like him,
have to fall back in line or lose money essential for one's survival.





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