Posted on 01/28/2005 1:36:32 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
If the parents in this district put up with this...
I can't believe I live in this state.
Huh, I thought it was about all the children competing. You know, like a race, where only one kid wins, but every kid is healthier because they ran the race.
If brains were dynamite, these people wouldn't have enough to blow their nose.
Oh for the love of Pete! No wonder people think we are nutballs!!
BTW I played games in class, and {gasp} I actually let them win prizes! If you didn't study and didn't know any of the answers you didn't win anything. Kind of like real life.
sundero
That was my thought, too. If the administrators are too dumb to understand what the program means, how can they possibly be trusted to put it into effect?
Liberal leftist thinking. Sounds like a bunch of demoncRATS found a way to make news with their political correctness gone amuck.
This is such crap. The point that "it's not always the straight-A student" who wins is a valid one.
Different kids are good at different things. Sometimes the kid who isn't good at most things really shines in a particular area. By eliminating competition, we make sure that the kid with a unique talent will never get any recognition.
When I was a kid, I was one of the ones who was picked for teams last, or close to last. Except when we had "college bowl" type events in Junior high social studies class. These were usually one class against the other, twenty kids on a side, where the teacher would ask curriculum related questions. My class always won these events, because I was usually the first one with an answer to about a quarter to a third of the questions, and I was usually correct.
I can remember one time getting off to an unusually bad start, and kids who never would have picked me for a sports team were complaining that I wasn't carrying the team. To my relief and theirs I hit my stride about half way through, and we won that day, too.
No competition means some kids are never going to have a chance to show what they are good at. How does that help self-esteem?
I think maybe we should consider "no teacher left behind".
These teachers and administrators are obviously digging in their heels to try and defeat the president's initiative. I remember when Reagan was confronted by such a revolt in the air traffic controllers union he just fired them all and it solved the whole problem. Now Bush can't fire elementary school principals but he might be able to cut off federal funding to asinine school districts.
So the way to build self esteem is to never let the kids compete?
What happens to their self esteem when they enter the real world?
I studied my butt off to get in a district spelling bee in the fifth grade. I made it quite a ways, but I didn't win. Did I feel like a loser for that? Hell no, I was proud to have been selected, then to have made it that far.
Every kid who even gets into a spelling bee is a winner, a concept lost on these PC idiots.
What really gets them upset is that Bush has taken a lot of their teaching freedom away -- and for good reason, because, in general, it was not getting results. This was the only way the school could get back at him. I know many administrators are idiots, but even they are not stupid enough to actually believe the logic they put forward in this story and with those ridiculous quotes.
This is all a power-play. A way to embarass Bush. Guess what, dummies. You failed.
Can a not-for-profit organization that focus on education take over?
...Sounds like a bunch of demoncRATS found a way to make news with their political correctness gone amuck...
They weren't hired to play politics, but that's exactly what they are doing.
An excellent idea. I went into teaching late in life and knew other people who had done other things and then decided to teach prior to retiring for good. Most of them were WONDERFUL teachers. All of the education classes they made me take were a waste of time (well, except for a couple of days when they taught us how to put a lesson plan together, that was helpful).
And I was fortunate to teach in a state that did not have teachers unions.
sundero
That's not what the program means, and you know it. Or at least I hope you do.
The administrators, on the other hand, are too dumb to be trusted with a dime of federal money (which is given to bring kids UP to standards, not bring the standards down to the current lousy level of the kids). But failing schools hate this program anyway, because kids have to pass actual, objective tests to see if they are really learning anything, and this makes school administrators and the teachers unions quake in fear.
My brother WON a spelling bee and he ended up on drugs, so I don't think a spelling bee would have that much effect on self-esteem.
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