Stoooooopid.
so.. they're using NCLB as an excuse for their "lowest common denominator" education strategy.
the whole school is no smarter than their dumbest pupil.
How can kids be expected to compete in the real world when competition is prohibited in our schools?!!
I had to read a few other articles from the source to convince myself that it wasn't satire.
Sounds like the admin is attempting a truly clumsy strategy to end NCLB. If more schools are in the news embracing this nitwitery, I would guess that it is a coordinated effort.
If not in the news, then we do have an example of stunning idiocy.
Why don't they just lobotomize the children and create drones. No child would be offended then.
What a load of anti-Bush doublespeak!
No competition because declaring a winner leaves other children behind?!
UTTER BS.
This is a budge cutting measure. I bet NONE of the administrative areas had a budget cut. I bet that education "seminar" is still going to be paid.
As a result, the spelling bee "sends a message that this isn’t an all-kids movement," Newman said.
And they will be eliminating their sports teams because of this when?
More like they know that any kids they send to this competition and further rounds will quickly get crushed because they have failed to teach them.
They are simply taking the intent of NCLB and twisting it around to make a juvenile point. Kind of like when my 5 year old refuses to take a bath at night because earlier in the day I told her to stay out of the water.
Did I miss anything?
Congressman Billybob
Right. When they take the competition out of sports teams, and grades out of schools, then this would fit right. Everyone can be 1st chair in the band, or all can be captains of their sports teams, everyone gets an A if you just show up.
How did we ever get idiots running our schools ? Let's promote self-esteem by making sure that not only every child is treated as incapable, but dumb it all down enough that they won't even know they are uneducated.
I admit that I scanned the article, but this line stuck out for some reason.
Yeah, let's make sure they all have enough 'self-esteem' to get where they want to go...
'cause they're dang sure going to be too stupid to read a map!
Stupidest thing I have heard in a while ping!
This is the natural outcome of the attack agasint the rich. First they attack people who are rich in money, now they attack people who are good at spelling. In both cases, it's a war against achievement.
They are wrong to claim that only the best benefit from spelling bees. Competition makes everyone a better speller. The way to get better at playing chess is to play against someone who is better at it than you.
Yeah right. They just got tired of getting their ass whipped by homeschooled kids.
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
The adminstrators also probably didn't like the facts that home schoolers out perform every year in this competition and others like it.
Idiots
Liberals... punish the kids, blame it on Bush and pose for the cameras.... I'd call these folks idiotic, but that would be an insult to idiots everywhere.
OMG, I can't believe I live in this state.
Public schools ping