Posted on 01/28/2005 1:36:32 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
>>It is not about free meals.<<
Explain that to the school board! Our residents did and it didn't work.
In our local district some elementary grades had been reading the classic "Polar Express" book and were set to go on a PTA funded outing to see the movie version of the book they had read. School administrators nixed the trip citing the No Child Left Behind Act as a reason because the trip didn't have sufficient educational content. This same district however has no problem with the high school football teams missing half days of school to travel over 500 miles to compete in a cross state conference.
So may we assume they'll also be cancelling all the school district's competitive sports programs on the same theory?
This is why the Founding Fathers envisioned "small government". They knew that governments tend to creep toward tyranny seasoned with abject stupididy. It is best to legislate only those things that absolutely must be regulated.
Let's not praise the kids whose parents(Plural) encourage their children to excel, let's just dumb them all down and keep every child equal,right. When it comes to learning, not all children are equal, and these administrators are waaaay out of line.
http://www.educationnext.org/20044/21.html
The RI school system is using a blueprint for educational reform from an organization called the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/
"No Child Left Behind says all kids must reach high standards," Newman said. "Its our responsibility to find as many ways as possible to accomplish this."
The administrators agreed, Newman said, that a spelling bee doesnt meet the criteria of all children reaching high standards -- because there can only be one winner, leaving all other students behind.
"Its about one kid winning, several making it to the top and leaving all others behind. Thats contrary to No Child Left Behind," Newman said.
A spelling bee, she continued, is about "some kids being winners, some kids being losers."
As a result, the spelling bee "sends a message that this isnt an all-kids movement," Newman said.
Isn't this just like a liberal.
They all can't be winners, so we'll make them all the same,
and if they ARE all the same, and most of them are losers,
then ALL of them ARE LOSERS.
Putting aside the fact that in their warped world, there are no winners or losers. In fact no reason to strive at all.
Baaah! And I thought I got a crummy education in the 60s!
Why this makes me feel like a genius!
-"You have to build positive self-esteem for all kids, so they believe theyre all winners," she said. "You want to build positive self-esteem so that all kids can get to where they want to go."-
What an unmitigated flake. u-n-m-i-t-i-g-a-t-e-d
Another brain-damaged liberal. I swear, there must be a genetic component to this - a defective gene, a damaged chromosome - something to make these people think the way they do.
No offense to any of you teachers out there, but where I go to school it is all freaks, geeks, and any other kind of alternate lifestyle looking person that are education majors. I hope its different in other places, but this is here in Red Fairbanks Alaska, which makes me worry.
They warp and pervert everything they touch.
Reminds me of the LLs complaining that saying "God Bless America" meant you didn't want God to bless any other countries.
Excuse me - since that interpretation had never crossed my mind - no doubt due to my lack of sensitivity and nuance - I know that's not what I meant when I said, "God Bless America".
Idiots - and they're teaching our future.
Ironic. Our regional spelling bee is held at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library.
Because you have a working brain?
Well, I like to think so :)
In the same vain, she said that henceforth, all administration personnel openings and other department openings will be filled on a first come first serve basis. After all, we can't have people thinking that they are better than other people. We will also be be flat-lining all salaries so that teachers just hired will make the same as teachers with 30 years of service.
Translation - "We believe that rewarding an individual for personal achievement harms the self esteem and potential future for all who do not achieve."
Let's completely eliminate every example of success so children can aspire to nothing. It's nice to hear the latest example of the dumbing down of society by the 2+2=5 crowd.
And morons like this are the reason that people who care about their children don't let them into public school systems.
This would be unFREEKINGbelievable if I had not seen it already a million times.
Where do theses school board, school principals come from?
Oh yeah, college! They are liberal elites who go straight from brain washing in college to our kids schools. They never experience Capitalism.
Communists! Socialists! Mentally ill!
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