isn't the SCOTUS decision the punchline to NCLB?

[ulysses]

"School choice" is one of the punitive measures that failing schools have to offer to parents.

Where are a lot of failing schools located? In urban, majority black areas.

But you can't set aside race in school choice plans. So urban schools get further defunded (another punitive measure), the motherfuckers who designed the law get to claim that they offered "choice" to the parents...but other schools don't have to accept kids from the ghetto. Rope-a-dope.

Watch for more vouchers talk next.

[MissWaverly]

1. thus dooming them to poorly regulated charter schools

or to stay in their existing schools which have no tax dollars.

[ulysses]

3. yes indeed.

Why isn't the party howling about this?

[MissWaverly]

7. the problem is the spin

NCLB sounds like a good plan but it's all about testing. We don't want our kids to be
lab rats taught to take tests. We want them to have life skills. There has to be time
to wonder about art, music, sports, playtime. There is so much emphasis on math and basic
skills that everything else goes out the airlock. With globalization a fact, future
generations will need an array of skills beyond the basic.

[ulysses]

9. I have a great special ed professor at GA State

who defends NCLB because it made administrivia types pay attention to what happened in special ed. I appreciate the need to not warehouse special ed kids and to push them to achieve, but I think she's missed the larger aim of the law.

[MissWaverly]

12. it's a clever con

this is a rationale for spending more money on the affluent, who have home computers and will ace the tests and punish the
poor who do not have the resources and will not test well.

[Horse with no Name]

2. The end of public schools

The bastards finally did it.:(

[blondeatlast]

6. Breaking: We've just received word that Paris and Nicole are kissing!

Screen crawl: The Supreme Court voted today to affirm the rights of Americans to choose the schools their children attend..."

what do I tell my son about this? I no longer have the words. :cry:

[JDPriestly]

4. This Supreme Court is hellbent on preserving the advantages

of belonging to a privileged class as much as possible for their own (numerous I believe) children. They care little for the poor, the disadvantaged, the sick, the hardworking but not well educated. They are the hypocrites of our day. They apply the laws strictly but care nothing about the effects of the laws or the public policy for the laws. This will be tragic for our country. It comes at a time when more than ever we need a well educated workforce to compete in global markets. This puts inner city American kids back about about 75 years. My children went to Magnet schools. I know what they mean. These Supreme Court justices are rich and privileged. They send their kids to provide schools or to the better suburban public schools. God forgive them. They know not what they have done.

[blondeatlast]

5. Exactly. This was so calculated and watch for the talking points

to come out of this. I've noticed that religion made a big presentation here yesterday, too.

I no longer believe anything is coincidental when it comes to politics.

[ulysses]

10. I've never been into conspiracy theories,

but I believe without even the vaguest doubt that this was planned.

[JDPriestly]

8. This Supreme Court is hellbent on preserving the advantages

of belonging to a privileged class as much as possible for their own (numerous I believe) children. They care little for the poor, the disadvantaged, the sick, the hardworking but not well educated. They are the hypocrites of our day. They apply the laws strictly but care nothing about the effects of the laws or the public policy for the laws. This will be tragic for our country. It comes at a time when more than ever we need a well educated workforce to compete in global markets. This puts inner city American kids back about about 75 years. My children went to Magnet schools. I know what they mean. These Supreme Court justices are rich and privileged. They send their kids to provide schools or to the better suburban public schools. God forgive them. They know not what they have done.

[ulysses]

11. I disagree.

They know precisely what they've done.

[Skidmore]

13. SCOTUS is the punchline to Little Boots' residency.

Har har har har.....