No Genius Left Behind
 

Bob says the Constitution requires equal treatment under the law.
If the NCLB qualifies as "equal treatment" then so does the NGLB.
WTF is the difference?

I would settle for a division of groups. Keep the smart kids with the smart
kids and the slow kids with the slow kids. That way most of them will be
learning as much as they can as fast as they can.




http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/05/hosp_infections

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Prime...p031023-1.html

http://www.msnbc.com/news/992470.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in579657.shtml

"Specialsearcher" wrote in message
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Bob says the Constitution requires equal treatment under the law.
If the NCLB qualifies as "equal treatment" then so does the NGLB.
WTF is the difference?

I would settle for a division of groups. Keep the smart kids with the
smart
kids and the slow kids with the slow kids. That way most of them will be
learning as much as they can as fast as they can.


The problem that I have with this notion is a social one. My daughter is a
gifted student. Her school decided that this was a good idea too. They
seperated the grade into three levels - those working above grade level (or
the gifted students), those working on grade level, and those working below
grade level (the remedials). The problem was that my middle-class,
non-white child (because of her intelligence) was stuck in a classroom with
upper middle white children. She was not around other children like herself
and felt very much on the outside fringe of the group for the last three
years that she was in elementary school. She felt punished for her
intelligence, and no child ought to feel that way.

Roger Dodger wrote:

And what of the money flushed down the basketball hoops and
football goalposts of schools, that could instead be spend on
labs and libraries?

This is one of my favorite sore pointz: taking a bunch of
IQ-75 DAFNz into the major universities, calling them "students"
merely for the purpose of having good football/basketball teams.
They all get "tutors" to do their homework and term paperz.

Because such good teams hype the alumni, get them donating lots
of money to the alma mater, that'z why. Ditto paying the coaches
five times as much as the president of the university, or dean of
the medical school. Absolutely disgraceful.

It'z academic prosititution, makes money so it'z OK.

Universities are about INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.
If *MONEY* is what they are after, why not just open a casino and
whorehouse next to the campus and make some Really_Big_Money
while keeping the school academically and intellectually pure.

The last University of Washington entering freshman class
(4500 students), after the the recently-passed state law
eliminating racial preferences, had only 138 DAFNz.
Just about enough to re-stock the teamz for those IQ-75 "studentz"
who had used up their athletic eligibility...