Hunger, Homelessness, Poverty Have Been Declared "No Excuse." How About Lead?
The unethical and self-serving hucksters of corporate ed reform have ignored every social factor that science and common sense have ever shown to contribute to and maintain the test score achievement gaps that are routinely blamed on teachers, parents, and public schools. The media, meanwhile, have remained faithful to the Business Roundtable's agenda for maintaining the status quo stupidity of impossible testing targets for the poor, even while the teaching profession and public school are dismantled in favor of corporate charter solutions that contain and segregate the poor and brown, while applying psychological and behavioral neutering techniques to our most vulnerable children.
Even our President has declared there are No Excuses. Not zip code, hunger, poverty, homelessness, sickness, fear, insecurity, or anything else. Nothing can stop the testing, the punishing, the shutting down of public schools, and the lifelong labeling of children as failures. What kind of country have we become? What happened to compassion, concern, care, and help. When did we stop being human?
One must wonder how the Oligarchs' teams of dissemblers and lawyers will choose to ignore or deny this latest
Even our President has declared there are No Excuses. Not zip code, hunger, poverty, homelessness, sickness, fear, insecurity, or anything else. Nothing can stop the testing, the punishing, the shutting down of public schools, and the lifelong labeling of children as failures. What kind of country have we become? What happened to compassion, concern, care, and help. When did we stop being human?
One must wonder how the Oligarchs' teams of dissemblers and lawyers will choose to ignore or deny this latest