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To: Gigantor

Conclusion says it all: “Boland ends his book with familiar suggestions for ­reform: Invest more money, recruit better teachers, retool the unions, end poverty. But there’s no public policy for fixing a broken kid from a broken home, or turning fear into resilience, or saving kids who can’t, or won’t, be saved.”


3 posted on 01/17/2016 7:41:07 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: Nevadan

Looks like more o’ them wonderful New York values.


6 posted on 01/17/2016 7:43:49 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: Nevadan

Everyone should read that conclusion before reading the book. His entire experience will likely be clouded by that progressive ideology.

Although, in reading the article and looking for a Christian answer, I am dumbfounded. Just pray for them.


12 posted on 01/17/2016 8:20:02 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Nevadan

Conclusion says it all: “Boland ends his book with familiar suggestions for ­reform: Invest more money, recruit better teachers, retool the unions, end poverty. But there’s no public policy for fixing a broken kid from a broken home, or turning fear into resilience, or saving kids who can’t, or won’t, be saved.”

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The government keeps breeding the animals and making the rules that turn these schools into war zones. Nothing will change until the root problem is recognized.


23 posted on 01/17/2016 8:50:00 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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