Posted on 05/15/2006 7:19:15 AM PDT by Nextrush
That is so gay.
'He said students are so upset that they're blaming their teachers for having to take all these tests, and deciding to punish the teachers by refusing to answer the questions.'.........
I don't blame the kids. If they're not taught academics, how could they possibly pass an academics test?
I'm with the students 100%.
Yeah! There's tree hugging class, fisting class, abortion studies, race baiting 101, club queerdom, animal deity worship ,etc.
How can the liberal indoctrinators get to the really important stuff when useless junk like reading, writing and arithmetic keep getting in the way?
Congress has to do something to save the socialist revolution, and they have to do it now before the entire revolution falls apart.
Where's history? Oh yeah. Social studies is mandatory if the revolution is to be a success.
History has to be eliminated. Kids might learn from it. They'll figure out what "freedom" really means.
Oh! We can't have that in the liberal gooberment skrools now can we?
NCLB was designed to further extend the fed's control in education. I thought the repubs were about local control and smaller government in America.
NCLB will be swept out the door next election and we will be back to square one.
Eliminate the union. It supports the left and brings in left wing policies in return. The teachers obey, and the kids become the tools to make it happen.
When the teachers union wants a pay raise, they threaten to cut back on students fun stuff like gym, art, and recess if the parents do not obey and hand over the cash.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what should scare you more.
Is federal control worse, or is the power of the National Education Association and its agenda worse?
I compared NEA to Al Capone and the KKK earlier and the feds went after them when local power didn't work.
I think that's the problem here, the liberal (NEA) agenda in education.
I believe in local control, but even the local elected school boards around here (PA) are filled with NEA and or liberal people. They (the school boards) aren't going to fix things and every time we elect a conservative school board in one district, they (Education Association) pour money in to take them out in the next election.
Its like some corrupt political machine the way liberals seize and maintain control of our local school boards in PA.
Send in the feds and get the gangsters out of education.
Most teachers belong to the NEA out of necessity for legal protection, not because they are communists. School boards & admin people today are all politicians that would rather file charges against a teacher than tell a parent for once that they are wrong.
Just a social reflection of our society in general.
Bull$hit. That may be the case in some instances, and it probably is, but a blanket statement like that is false.
How is NCLB hurting, dare I ask?
Good question. Do a search sometime in your locale on NCLB and 'highly qualified'. There are teachers here in NC whose students excel above the standards set by NCLB that are not 'highly qualified' according to NCLB. And it's not only in North Carolina.
The four-year-old No Child Left Behind law says teachers must have a bachelor's degree, a state license and proven competency in every subject they teach by this year. The first federal order of its kind applies to teachers of math, history and any other core class.
So for example. I know of a teacher that has taught Social Studies/History for over 40 years. But according to NCLB, science is the core course of study tied to Social Studies. This teacher has never taught science, does not plan on teaching science, and is never required to teach science. But because science is tied to social studies, this person is not 'highly qualified' according to the government. And yet, this teacher's students pass state exams with flying colors when it comes to history and social studies. And yes, I know of whole schools that are not 'highly qualified' because of this bureaucratic nonsense
Frankly, the Dept of Education, the Republican party, and any political hack, or their supporters, that defends this 'act' without knowing what it is doing to teachers can shove it.
That good enough for you?
I have to include parents for if there is one thing I agree with classroom teachers on, is that parents need to get involved and behind their children's education.
Why is home schooling successful? Because parents take personal responsibility for their children's education.
But it must be education without a liberal agenda. If parents want to challenge teachers for busting Bush in class or having a "Murder Assignment," I'm sorry, we need "charges" then.
You're repeating charges made by the National Education Association in their magazine article that I didn't include.
Are you promoting the NEA agenda, here?
There has been a gangster, liberal takeover of education in our country and federal intervention is justified until local communities have the courage and understanding to rise up and retake their schools from the liberals.
What bothers you more, the liberal politically correct agenda in education or the No Child Left Behind law? I pick the former.
Property taxes improve schools, in many areas of alaska prop taxes are non-existent and schools don't even have books. You only get what you pay for.
Local control without state oversight and accountability leads to massive corruption within school districts. It's great to live in a repub state but the down side is these same repubs refuse to expose the problems of local control; just keep the money flowing. Schools exist not to educate children but rather to provide endless money source for school boards, admin people, and their relatives to line their pockets.
Personally, I want politics out of education, the feds out of education, the local crooks out of education. A state dept of ed that is rigidly controlled by an unbiased board of (business types) no teachers, politicians, preachers, off the wall parents, ect to set goals and directions for the future.
You touched on one of the problems with our local school boards.
Many local school board members are people who teach in other school districts and are NEA members.
The boards don't represent parents-taxpayers who believe in fiscal responsibility and solid education but teachers-union members who think they may need more money, spending and political correctness to make education "better."
What irks me the most is that teacher-union school board members vote on teacher contracts that determine pay and benefits for fellow teacher-union members. What a conflict of interest?
And by the way, "staunch conservative" is liberal speak. Sounds like something the drive-by media would say.
I'm a real conservative. I don't push the liberal NEA agenda of your family members.
Property taxes drive people out of their homes, especially elderly people down here.
Its a hot issue with politicians trying to come up with new taxes to replace property taxes down here.
A scheme to take more out of our pockets so NEA members can have more pay, better health plans and fat pensions.
Where's all that oil money going up there?
Is it really that bad in education in Alaska or are you giving me some NEA propaganda?
"I see the face of a child. She has a beautiful, shy smile. She lives in a huge, sprawling shantytown in a developing country. She is dark-skinned. Her nationality doesn't matter. What matters is that she is a child with all the dazzling potential of a child. "
And the NEA is looking to squash that potential.
You think the feds are better ? They're in cahoots with the NEA as well.
No public school is the answer - private choice is.
Please - there are a very small number of parents who pull those stunts.
I am always amazed at the number of people who blame parents rather than the schools.
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