Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/9/2006 7:44:21 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
rparkany@borg.com writes:

YEP,  Art:   most times it's ALL about PERSONAL or PRIVATE agendas in the  
classroom, rather than class consciousness....




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You said before that educators should be against NCLB because it is in  their 
best interest to do so.  Clearly you are a poster boy  of carrying a personal 
and private agenda into  the classroom.   
 
Leaving aside "class consciousness" as an implied alternative,  if the agenda 
in the classroom is mostly not what's best for parents and  kids, is it any 
surprise that eventually we wind up with an external  lever such as NCLB?  How 
else should Americans leverage a system that puts  its interests before the 
interests of parents and kids?  The NYT knows  that much of the agenda in the 
classroom is not in fact what's best for parents  and kids and that is why NYT 
says NCLB ranks with the most important  civil rights legislation of the last 
fifty years.  NAACP knows it too  and that is why NAACP is arguing in federal 
court that states should  enforce NCLB in "letter and spirit?"  Or is this all 
part of the  ever-expanding plot against public education that began with 
George  Washington and his hootch distillery on Mt. Vernon and now finds you as a  
hen-pecked teacher of middle-school math?
 
Art