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"No Child Left Behind...
... REALLY means "No Child GETS AHEAD!"
Fred Reed has a good rant this week
on our "Department of Education" - which is a euphemism just about as stupid as the "Department of Justice." (H-T Brock at Free North Carolina!)
Go. Read.
I'll wait...
All done?
OK... Well, Reading Fred's bit prompted me to share this TRUE story...
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I knew a kid who was reading (the newspaper, aloud) BEFORE his 4th
birthday. Forced into Kindergarten with kids who weren't POTTY-TRAINED,
he nearly lost his mind until they decided to give him a Library pass
& let him go.
On to a different place/town/school for first grade, they endeavored to teach him to read - using some idiotic crap called the "Initial Teaching Alphabet" (aka "ITA").
He refused to write in "ITA" when he knew how to write in ENGLISH - and his inner-city-Sistah-Teacher vowed to "put 'dat lil' smart-ass cracka in his PLACE!" -- so he nearly flunked out of first grade until his parents intervened with the school-board.
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