Stephanie S.

Blah Blah Blah. W. is still blathering but two things I've noticed thus far...

1) I think that the act of clapping is an odd thing. Is there another creature on earth who, as a whole group slap two body parts together to make such a ruckus? I keep seeing Dick behind Bush and he's just a clapping away..then everyone is and well, its really knod of an odd phenomenon, this clapping we humans do.


2) Bush mention the biggest thorn in my side since they quit making my favorite bra at Vic's Secret. No Child Left Behind.
He said that "test scores are up..." and something to the effect of "We're working to put high school students ahead and close the gaps in the eduation of minorities."

My dear sweet lord aside from the War, actually, no...NCLB is a bigger screw up than the War. Stupid, asinine, wasteful, nonsensical and useless, that is what the NCLB is.

"NCLB declares that education should be scientific. It mentions "scientifically based research" 110 times. Yet it has zero scientific basis for what it prescribes. Nothing that it forces on the states has been tried.
It does turn our kids into lab rats." ~Educational researcher Gerald Bracey.

If you have a child in school or care how the public school system prepares the kids who will one day be in charge of this country, I suggest learning about this ridiculous mess and if nothing else, check out your local reps, find out how they feel about it and let them know what you think.

Just in case you didn't know...

The approximately $130 billion spent so far on
the war in Iraq is:
About 4 times what the federal government annually spends on K-12 programs for all 50 states.

Enough to hire 2.4 million elementary school teachers.

Enough to provide Head Start slots for an additional 18 million children.

Enough to provide full four-year college scholarships for more than 3 million students.


90% of school superintendents have said NCLB requires them to make expenditures NCLB doesn"t provide.

I recommend a standardized test to shed some light on the subject for ya.
Rethinking Our Schools

peace

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"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio)