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truedelphi

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3. Well it all started with "No Child Left Behind" --

Reply to valerief (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 23, 2014, 02:31 PM

Sep 2014

a program that was highly encouraged by the George W Bush, and that Ted Kennedy supported.

The governmental bureaucrats are privatizing and institutionalizing schools, left and right.

Even arithmetic questions are geared for imprinting the "free market" concept into kids' brains. "If George works fourteen hours in a factory, and makes $ 6 an hour, while his cousin who is in a Union can't find work, how much does George make each work day?"

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Bad news from Jefferson County.. but at least there's push back. [View all] mountain grammy Sep 2014 OP

When I was growing up my dad taught me to upaloopa Sep 2014 #1

Is this bullshit happening so that parents homeschool their kids, thereby valerief Sep 2014 #2

Well it all started with "No Child Left Behind" -- truedelphi Sep 2014 #3

The far right is merely consolidating power. Eleanors38 Sep 2014 #4

sounds like the school board needs to take a trip into Denver or Boulder tk2kewl Sep 2014 #5

We are seeing the awful results of locks Sep 2014 #6

Where I live that's all we get, but they haven't messed with the curriculum. mountain grammy Sep 2014 #7