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roachboy · 01-12-2005, 09:34 AM

union pukes?
jesus......
it is customary for the far right to blame everything on the teachers union.
this is obviously no different.
no child left behind is in the main a sad farce.
like most other parallel initiatives, this attempts to address the "problems" of public education by dancing around the central matter of the degree to which the educational system reproduces the class structure, which leads directly to the question of funding, its origins and allocation---instead you get the usual rightwing nonsense based on the illusion of equality, the illusion of a "level playing field"
standardized testing is a sad joke. nothing about it teaches students to think. all it really does is bends teaching toward standardized tests. it is a sop for those who bewail the "collapse of traditional standards"--a set of moans which seems to come almost exclusively from folk who were themselves mediocre students. i dont get it.

maybe the idea is that if you keep programs in place that impose a conservative worldview as if it was natural on students for long enough, maybe there will come a point when folk produced by this system might support the bankrupt policies of the bush administration and its ilk without having to be paid off to do it. why not--the positions are untenable if defended at the level of argument.....

01-12-2005, 09:34 AM	#34 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	union pukes? jesus...... it is customary for the far right to blame everything on the teachers union. this is obviously no different. no child left behind is in the main a sad farce. like most other parallel initiatives, this attempts to address the "problems" of public education by dancing around the central matter of the degree to which the educational system reproduces the class structure, which leads directly to the question of funding, its origins and allocation---instead you get the usual rightwing nonsense based on the illusion of equality, the illusion of a "level playing field" standardized testing is a sad joke. nothing about it teaches students to think. all it really does is bends teaching toward standardized tests. it is a sop for those who bewail the "collapse of traditional standards"--a set of moans which seems to come almost exclusively from folk who were themselves mediocre students. i dont get it. maybe the idea is that if you keep programs in place that impose a conservative worldview as if it was natural on students for long enough, maybe there will come a point when folk produced by this system might support the bankrupt policies of the bush administration and its ilk without having to be paid off to do it. why not--the positions are untenable if defended at the level of argument..... __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 01-12-2005 at 09:42 AM..