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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

School Tech Connect: Did That Just Happen?

School Tech Connect: Did That Just Happen?

Did That Just Happen?

Two very brief things have gotten by me in the past week or so, and I just haven't had time to ask if that really happened. Here they are:

Did He Really Say That?

In the story about the charter school in Flint, Michigan, this mother tells the board that at the last meeting, the president (of the charter school board?) told her this: "If you don't like it, just take your kids out." Watch:

Divide and Conquer

Peace and good luck to all those rallying for continued desegregation in Wake County tomorrow.

Whenever anybody ever trots out the old "bigotry of low expectations" chestnut from W, it's a good bet that that person wants black people back in their neighborhoods, in highly regimented schools, where the motivated families are encouraged to separate from unmotivated families, and the community schools left with the lowest

The Two Americas, Part Next

Somehow, somewhere, they'll figure out a way to blame this problem on the physicians who serve distressed communities.