Re: NCLB is a LIE, a SCAM!!

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May daughter, normally an excellent student, came home crying
in 8th grade because she had made all=region choir but was
not allowed to participate because she had failed math. She
tried to blame it on a lousy teacher. Her teacher, a math
genious, really did not know how to teach non=genious
teachers. But I did not let her get away with that. It is
is not the teacher who will miss opportunities because you
didn't learn, but you. Therefore it is your responsibility
to learn the material, in any way you can. Ask her for
help, ask other teachers, ask your friends, but you have to
be responsible for your own education. She has had good
grades ever since. On 11/11/08, ANGRY Father wrote:
> CLB is a lie, a Bush Family SCAM, a useless and incoherent
> pile of dunk! And it is in fact leaving ALL our kids behind.
> The argument of "civil Rights" is an abuse to dumb down our
> Children even more as it victimize not only Teachers but
> the Students that are simply made to pass grads, undeserved.
> The assumption is that there is a direct cause and effect
> relationship between a teacher's ability to teach and a
> student's learning. Students and their actions apparently
> plays only subordinate or inconsequential roles in their
> learning, only the actions of the all-powerful, but made
> totally powerless by NCLB, teacher matter. "Better teachers
> (Where should those geniuses of teachers come from? From
> China? Since teachers receive NO education which allows
> them to be able to do their Job successfully and
> efficiently. ) Thus the teacher is always at fault. What in
> fact is very far from reality of education in the U.S.
> The driving force behind learning is not the teacher but
> the individual student, and the will to learn. the system
> of education itself is gravely at fault here as well. What
> alone allows every attempt to individualize lessons to
> fail, because a teacher simple has no time or resources to
> make separate lessons for each student (what alone is
> INSANE to expect from any teacher!) Our DUMBING DOWN
> pathetic Education system and our society is made to
> believe that it is the teacher responsibility to "archive"
> excellence" for the students, while the students enjoy the
> right of a carefree, stress-free youth. Our debilitating
> and destructive thinking about education does not compel
> students to strive so that they may discover the full range
> of their abilities so they become literary intellectual
> impotence. Not only do most students in our school system
> fail to learn academics in any "depth", they also learn
> that someone else is responsible for their success or
> failures in life. There should be no question that this
> does not reflect the reality of their adult life later in
> any way.
> NCLB and all the nonsensical theocratic motivated dumbing
> down of our Children has to go, for our Children to be able
> to compete in the Future and for our nation to even have a
> Future in comparison to the rest of the World.
> I am seeking more informed parents and teachers willing to
> speak out very loud against this obviously intentional and
> perpetuated dumbing down of our Children. Even up to joint
> law suits against the School System, if this is what needed
> to be done!
 

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