Posted on 08/03/2011 11:40:07 AM PDT by Libloather
Parents defend Atlanta school caught up in scandal
By Ty Tagami
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9:39 p.m. Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Parents of students at an Atlanta public school where cheating was alleged to have occurred on a statewide test on Tuesday night defended their school and teachers at a town hall meeting.
“We’ve been extremely pleased with the instruction my children have received,” said Quinnie Cook-Richardson, one of several parents at the troubled West Manor Elementary School who spoke at the meeting.
Her son’s teacher had him reading within a year, she said, adding, “They are an example of what is right with Atlanta Public Schools.”
Cook-Richardson was among a parade of parents who defended a school where the principal has been asked to resign because of the scandal surrounding the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.
“This school is in pain,” said Sherida Ragland, the former Parent-Teacher Association president at West Manor. “There are 300 other parents who couldn’t make it [tonight] and they’re feeling the same way.”
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‘Tis also my right to hold them in utter contempt and give their vile screeching the silence it deserves.
Stupid and proud of it.
Someone call them a whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
Starbucks + neurolinguistic-programming-for-idiots + Democrats
But I repeat myself.
Very good post in a very good thread. Thanks.
From “The Law” -(CAPS mine)...excerpts...
...Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism...
...You say: “There are persons who lack education,” and you turn to the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property...
...Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task...
Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
May these children be the ones to perform surgery on you or cut your paycheck.
These well educated citizens are your next crop of state bureaucrats and functionaries as well members of your military and security agencies. Don’t fear these scholars will have a surplus of the ever valuable Self Esteem!
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