Comments on: What No Child Left Behind has in common with a loogie on your pizza http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/ Mississippi, politics, bayou philosophy, hi tech, and a beagle named Scout Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:44:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Underground History of American Education « Beagle Scout http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/#comment-30 Underground History of American Education « Beagle Scout Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:04:02 +0000 http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza-2/#comment-30 [...] Underground History of American Education. Or at least he’s posted about it at his site and this one and seems to think it’s a very important [...] [...] Underground History of American Education. Or at least he’s posted about it at his site and this one and seems to think it’s a very important [...]

]]> By: Spring Forward Weekend Open Post and Trackbacks « Wolf Pangloss http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/#comment-27 Spring Forward Weekend Open Post and Trackbacks « Wolf Pangloss Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:54:27 +0000 http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza-2/#comment-27 [...] Beagle Scout // Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 12:24 What No Child Left Behind has in common with a loogie on your pizzaI once heard a story from an acquaintance about an unnamed pizza joint that he worked at for a while. There was a customer who would call in and order a pizza during their sale night every week. Every week she would take delivery then call back in to c… [...] [...] Beagle Scout // Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 12:24 What No Child Left Behind has in common with a loogie on your pizzaI once heard a story from an acquaintance about an unnamed pizza joint that he worked at for a while. There was a customer who would call in and order a pizza during their sale night every week. Every week she would take delivery then call back in to c… [...]

]]> By: David http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/#comment-19 David Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:30:16 +0000 http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza-2/#comment-19 It's inherent in the design. Mandating minimum achievements coupled with "mainstreaming" children from the lefthand side of the bell curve assures that 1. an excess of attention will be wasted on those who will not benefit from an <i>education</i> (but who would most decidedly benefit from <i>training</i>. 2. training to "the test" (decidedly NOT "teaching the test") and 3. rampant cheating by highly-pressured teachers who are forced to waste resources assuring that ALL the students meet a minimum, thereby also ensuring that those in the middle of the bell curve who could benefit from an education do not recieve one. Face it, for those on the right end of the bell curve, school is a boring experience almost designed to turn them off learning. Those few highly self-motivated kids who attempt learning on their own soon discover that they face either the world of Harrison Bergeron or--in "enlightened" schools--"playtime for bright kids" (which also wastes their time and teaching resources by screrwing around with meaningless crap or more brainwashing experiences, though brainwashing experiences aimed at training bright kids to think in narrow channels suitable to statist tyrants). It's often rife with polemicism and a view warped by 30 years in New York public schools (simply extreme examples of the direction the whole country is going), but John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education" might nevertheless be a good place to start in examining the underpinnings of NCLB, AKA "No Child Gets Ahead". It's available to read online <a href="http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>here</b></a>. It’s inherent in the design. Mandating minimum achievements coupled with “mainstreaming” children from the lefthand side of the bell curve assures that

1. an excess of attention will be wasted on those who will not benefit from an education (but who would most decidedly benefit from training.

2. training to “the test” (decidedly NOT “teaching the test”) and

3. rampant cheating by highly-pressured teachers who are forced to waste resources assuring that ALL the students meet a minimum, thereby also ensuring that those in the middle of the bell curve who could benefit from an education do not recieve one.

Face it, for those on the right end of the bell curve, school is a boring experience almost designed to turn them off learning. Those few highly self-motivated kids who attempt learning on their own soon discover that they face either the world of Harrison Bergeron or–in “enlightened” schools–”playtime for bright kids” (which also wastes their time and teaching resources by screrwing around with meaningless crap or more brainwashing experiences, though brainwashing experiences aimed at training bright kids to think in narrow channels suitable to statist tyrants).

It’s often rife with polemicism and a view warped by 30 years in New York public schools (simply extreme examples of the direction the whole country is going), but John Taylor Gatto’s “Underground History of American Education” might nevertheless be a good place to start in examining the underpinnings of NCLB, AKA “No Child Gets Ahead”. It’s available to read online here.

]]> By: beaglescout http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/#comment-15 beaglescout Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:58:17 +0000 http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza-2/#comment-15 That is sure the way it's working. I wonder where the testing regimen went wrong. Was it wrong from conception or did it mutate into something sinister later? That is sure the way it’s working. I wonder where the testing regimen went wrong. Was it wrong from conception or did it mutate into something sinister later?

]]> By: David http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza/#comment-14 David Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:33:36 +0000 http://beaglescout.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/what-no-child-left-behind-has-in-common-with-a-loogie-on-your-pizza-2/#comment-14 NCLB is specifically designed to ensure that No Child Gets Ahead. NCLB is specifically designed to ensure that No Child Gets Ahead.

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