Reply #13: Michigan sucks too [View All]

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The only ones making money these days are the administrators and the mediators. No District is unaffected by NCLB. Plus Michigan set itself up for trouble by leveraging up the standards prior to NCLB. Unlike other states with less stringent mandates, Michigan now has to live with what was started.

Money? Teachers? What's that? No, parents today want us to burp and diaper their kids, feed them two meals a day, teach them academics, teach them acceptable behaviors--you name it, its done. Bush and his buddies are making education the Walmart of professions. Its all a scam to bring in vouchers for private schools. Right wing wins again.

All the Districts are hammering on any form of raise, all unions are fighting not to pay for benefits. We'll all be losing out unless we stay with our unions but with so many retiree's and young people joining up, the unions are in jeopardy just as they are among other workers.

The testing costs alone for NCLB are astronomical. And they act like schools never tested kids in the past or that teachers are not held accountable. What a joke. Special Education numbers are through the roof and most of these kids just shouldn't qualify. They need parents who can be available to help them learn and a government that cares.
No one thinks a thing of paying more for their kid's annual day care than what it takes to educate a kid for 9 months.

Well done, George Bush, well done. From one educational terrorist to another, well done.