A parent calls out the Ed-Deformers on CNN.com

[liskddksil]

Many of those who are driving education policy today are fixed on a certain set of numbers and measurements that we're told are the way to gauge a quality school. But as a parent, that's not really what matters to me about my daughter's education.

I can't tell you the number of her standardized test score from last year. I can't tell you the name of the curriculum program her school uses for math and reading. I don't know the pay scale of each of her teachers and whether that contributes to their malaise or enthusiasm in the classroom.

But here's what I can tell you about my daughter's education.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/08/gym.schools.parents/index.html?hpt=hp_bn8

[Angry Dragon]

1. Too bad the people that need to read and hear this

have their eyes and ears covered

[liskddksil]

2. Jonathan Alter probably spends too much time at cocktail parties

to actually listed to anyone with an opposing view.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[roody]

4. knr

[w8liftinglady]

5. My partner has said the same thing over and over.

His students are held to the same standardized levels...despite their backgrounds...
he managed to pass 80% of students according to these pre-conceived levels...despite 99% of them living below the federal poverty level.
99% of them living in families that make below 24,000/year.
One in four of his students had more than one address for the school year...several had more than 4 addresses.
These are the realities...and his isn't even the poorest school system in the DISD.

Screw these out of touch with reality jerks.Thank you to this parent who was brave enough to speak out.

[Gabi Hayes]

6. the far right rich with its total media control wins the war on the middle class on ALL fronts

they win because they have just about absolute control over all mainstream media outlets: TV, radio, newspaper, and internets (yahoo, aol....you name them, are ALL controlled by megacorps, whose agenda is inimical to economic democracy)

this is as good a place as any to see just how ingrained the problem has become

http://www.google.com/search?q=rich+media+poor+democracy&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

Rich Media, Poor Democracy pt1, with Robert McChesney/Mark Crispin Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_SMt5DZodM

[disillusioned73]

7. k&r

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