Re: Argument...Yes.....Banishment....No

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Lots of lefties,, progressives, civil-rights activists. advocates for 
poor children, minority children, and ELL children, and other good-guy 
go-getters support NCLB, in its widest outline, if not in all its 
details.

A horribly flawed assumption of ARN is that support for NCLB means 
support for George, Karl, phonics, privatizing schools. all the 
positions of the Business Roundtable, and a passion for the bottom-line 
of testing companies.  Take the blinders off.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: pwmjoy@earthlink.net <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>
To: arn-l <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 2:27 pm
Subject: [arn-l] Argument...Yes.....Banishment....No


Dear ARN:

I am opposed to banishing AB for many reasons, some of which have been 
already
elucidated by several respondents. Art is free to state:
"Still trying after all these years? Has a ring to it, kid of like a 
song lyric.
In any event, I called the Board to tell them to put you back in the
classroom and this is how you treat me? Ingrate.There's a pathetic 
quality
displayed here in both you and many of the group. We're these big, bold
assessment reformers looking out for the best interests of schools, 
children,
and democracy, but doggone it, we just can't cope with dissent and the 
only
reason someone could disagree with us is that he is a paid agent of the
testocracy. I mean, grow up. By the way, the past perfect tense of 
"write" is
"written." You wouldn't want to make that mistake in Substance, people 
might
think you're not really an editor." ......Ya get the victim role, the 
now easily
recognized vocabulary like "pathetic" and "grow up", the accusation 
that others
just can't take the "dissent" he dishes out, pointing out seeming 
contradictions
in positions others take, e.g., "best interests of schools, children, 
and
democracy", and goofy, funny  stuff like correcting another's spelling 
in a
piece where his own spelling is off, e.g., "kid" instead of "kind". I
 don't care if he works for the Bush-League or takes rhetorical advice 
from Karl
Rove. A while back, I began the delete thing. It felt good. Yet, I 
noticed that
many of the most interesting things I read were in response to the
Meistro-of-Maturity's corniness. Furthermore, every once in a while, he 
seemed
to actually have something to say that was laudable; I can't remember 
right now,
but I know there were times. While I complained recently that he takes 
up too
much time and space on ARN, I didn't mean he should be removed from the 
list.
There is an aspect to AB's presentation of himself that has a pinch of 
gutsiness
to it, i.e., a minority position that would be easy for someone to 
shrink from.
Good for him. Occasionally, he keeps some of us on our toes. I think 
that
secretly in his heart of hearts,  he would have to admit, that the 
majority here
at ARN keep him on his toes freeing him to don ballet shoes to enjoy a 
moment of
bliss as he courageously pirouettes into the abys
 s of letting go and sensing that, perhaps, there is other music out 
there that
may be healthier than what is his usual habit of hearing.




pwmjoy@earthlink.net
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