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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3454
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 04:51 pm: | 
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Hello? No Child Left Behind? Do you really believe that?
This is capitalism. In order to have winners you have to have losers. Most children will be left behind. That is the idea.
All you can do is do your best to see that YOUR child isn't left behind--and you can't guarentee that.
When you try to understand America, people look at that pyramid. Whole lot of rocks on the bottom supporting just a few on top.
And so it goes. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 509
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 06:41 pm: |
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We used to have "No Child Left Behind" on our shirts are READ but changed it as we saw what a joke that program was and we did not want flks to think we agreed with it to "One Child At A Time" because what you say is true, if you can do your best to see that your children are not left behind, that is a start. The No Child Left Behind system is broken. I saw it first hand.
I will disagree with you on the point of "most" children being left behind..I wont go that far. Most seems too broad in my view.
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Ntfs_encryption
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1617
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 09:16 pm: |
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Well, Armstrong Williams thought it was good. In fact, he unethically took a quarter of a million dollar bribe by the Bushsites to promote the idea. You're not suggesting was is wrong are you??? After all, Bush is a benevolent "compassionate conservative". He seriously takes the interests of the under class along with struggling poor and middle class people to heart. Don't ya think? Just curious......
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Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 511
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 10:07 pm: |
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LOL thats funny..Ummm Yes..it was wrong
LiLi |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6947
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 12:52 pm: |
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The slave masters never wanted their slaves to learn to read because because it humanized them. If a child can just learn to read, at some point in time he can educate himself. If parents can't do anything else, they can help a child learn to read and encourage him to do so. It's been said, that if left to their own devices, ingenious children would teach themselves to read. Others are not so fortunate. In any case, Reading is fundamental and an encyclopedia, a dictionary, a daily newspaper and a library card can become equivalent to a degree in liberal arts and sciences; if they are put to good use by a reader. And of course a computer is the master facilitator. This is home-schooling the easy way. IMO |
Urban_scribe
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Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 339
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 01:09 pm: |
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We have the NCLB program at the JHS where I have my afterschool writing/theatre group. I can't vouch for how it works at other schools, but here all they do is give the kids a small afterschool snack, a little tutoring, and a spot to sit and do homework. Most of the time, however, the kids are unsupervised running around the cafeteria and gymnasium. Therefore, from my estimation, the NCLBA is ineffective. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1683
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 06:32 pm: |
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hmmm....this issue, about our children is so important, that i has only been able to garner...7 posts....! Where are our priorities? |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 07:50 pm: |
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"hmmm....this issue, about our children is so important, that i has only been able to garner...7 posts....! Where are our priorities?"
I commented. But I believe Bushs program of "No Child Left Behind" is woefully flawed. I have heard many, many stories that are very critical of it's failings. Urban_Scribe has even listed her experiences.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 8129
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 08:14 pm: |
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The Federal government provides only 7 - 8% of dollars for funding public education in the US. So I remain perplex by how/why the states allow the Feds to extort them into cockamamie schemes like No Child Left Behind.
The Feds will NEVER be able to lead an effective remedy of America's education woes. Because schools are the products of FAMILIES and COMMUNITIES. If (or BECAUSE) those entities are in shambles, our school will fail. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 1685
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 08:37 pm: |
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well, abm, i would have to disagree. For african americans, schools have not been the products of families and communties. instead, since we have been fighting for resources mostly, we haven't begun to get to what you are talkin bout which is curriculum and the responsibilties of the schools to the community....this is generally speaking of course, those of us, or of you, who live in the suburbs or counties in which you play considerable role the management of the school, represent schools that are the product of familites and communities...but those poor folk, many of whom think it is just enough to tell there children to go to school, it is a different story....once they get to school, what do they get? what do they see?
This, too, is not always the case....it is not, always, a question of class. Many poor people, regardless of what Oprah thinks, support their children's education, and are assiduious in teaching their children the value of an education. but I find this, generally, among parents in their 30s...not those young teenage mothers who are oft more concerned about finding a baby sitter so that they can run to the club! |
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