[ez2muz]

"...I am guessing what this poster is referring to is some highly publicized plans of a few politicians to immediately "CLOSE" failing schools..."

No. ...and I'm trying to find where I read it... (that teachers in an "F" school would not be "grandfathered" back into their teaching positions but must re-apply.)

Since it didn't ring any bells with you - and I can't find it anywhere except in my failing memory, it could very well be that it was expressed as an idea and I took it to mean current procedure... but that's why I used question marks in the first post. ~:)

[ivylass]

I'm not entirely sure the "C" schools are much better. My son's middle school rated a C, and while we were flipping through a book for our daughter, "What every 5th Grader Should Know" (We're doing some home-schooling over the summer) my son revealed that he did not know Abraham Lincoln had been assasinated, nor when the Revolutionary War was fought. We are desperately trying to get him and our daughter into a private school...hopefully in a year from now, when he enters 9th grade.

[summer]

...it could very well be that it was expressed as an idea and I took it to mean current procedure.

No problem. It was never an idea in FL as far as I know, but I recall Al Gore mentioning it.