26 Jul
2012
26 Jul
'12
1:33 p.m.
Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
Apparently Dubya's "No Child Left Behind" initiative is to blame for most of that. It's a recent thing.
Yeah, I figured that's the specific idiocy you were talkig about. The worst pity of it is that he and his ilk convinced a large numbe of people to attempt to starve and compete the schools into improvement. Fortunately, there are still some unbelievably devoted teachers out there. And libraries.