David Wasserman

["pwmjoy@earthlink.net" <pwmjoy@earthlink.net>]

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 has 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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