Some states have said they won’t seek a waiver to NCLB. Among them are Texas and California who are beginning to understand the folly of depending on high stakes testing.
Arne Duncan, who was never a classroom teacher by the way, read that again, he has never been in a classroom, said states without a waiver will be held to the standards of NCLB because, “it’s the law of the land.”
Did he just threaten parts of the country who are tired of this draconian bill, who might just know whats better for their children than bureaucrats in Washington D.C. especially bureaucrats who have never been in a classroom?
Arne Duncan says the administration desperately wants congress to fix the law. Well how sir, how is this law that guts neighborhoods, closes schools, blames teachers for poverty and forces them to just teach to the test, fixable?
His threats, ignorance and hubris offend me.
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