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Originally Posted by j8ear
I wouldn't hold your breath either.
When I spoke of "UNION PUKES" I wasn't speaking of teachers who are members of the union (like my wife and mother-in-law, or your mother) but the beauracracy of NON-EDUCATORS WHO ARE THE UNION, who care little if at all about educating children, and instead focus exclusively on more money. Which they've proven time and again rarely finds it's way into classrooms, or has any correlation to the quality of education received by students what so ever.
I also want to point out, again, that the NCLB act was championed, and shepharded to fruition, by both GWB and his arch nemesis in the Senate, Edward Kennedy. Unlikely at is seems success AND failure MUST be attributed to both in equal numbers.
Regardless, as I've already mentioned it is unconstitutional legislation, which, as with practically every "act" produced in DC is and will be a complete and utter failure. Alas, once again, props to Kennedy and Bush for trying something to improve education. NO ONE else, Commie or Neo-Con, democrat or republican has done or even attempted a daggone thing in my lifetime.
I like accountability, and if it needs to be paid for by paring school administrators down to a more reasonable ratio (beaurocrat-teacher), say 2-1, or heaven forbid 1-1, so be it. Closing down crappy schools, or firing unproductive beaurocrats or unsuccessful teachers, in spite of the union-pukes objections is STILL a good thing in my book. Quality teachers welcome the measures, suddenly accountable beaurocrats, and along for the ride teachers fear it greatly.
To the issue at hand, and once again, this is an problem which falls squarely on the shoulders of Armstrong Williams. He exercised poor judgement, should have anticipated this end result, and should meet his maker career wise for it.
This is nothing new from a federal government perspective, and will change nothing from a federal government perspective.
All of you democrat and republican sheep worship at the alter of a politician who has done exactly the same thing.
-bear
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You make good points. I do believe in accountability and I do believe in cutting waste.
I wish to say that I believe what Kennedy and Bush worked for was in theory a great plan. However, I question the sincerity of Bush in truly getting it done.
I think what happened was Bush got Kennedy to write a truly good bill, Bush supported it in public then high ranked GOP congressmen tore it apart in private and worked to destroy it.
I also believe that the Dems. could have done more to keep the bill close to the original but decided it would make Bush look good and therefore decided to destroy it on their end.
I do think that perhaps both Bush and Kennedy tried hard to come up with a bi-partisan plan, but as all too often happens (at least for the past decade or so), both parties saw the other party as maybe getting more credit and therefore the bill and the betterment of the country came in second to the petty political games that go on.
What is sad is neither party is trying to correct this instead they would rather blame each other.... I find it easy to do so. The reason is much like this board. One side may have good ideas and yet the other side will shred the author to pieces and destroy the thread instead of allowing for compromise.