What the Bushies “Fail to Acknowledge”
While the Ocala Star-Banner published the effort of Jeb Bush mouthpiece Matt Lander this morning, editor Brad Rogers clearly doesn’t agree with him. Writes Rogers:
What Ladner and his associates fail to acknowledge, though, is what has been sacrificed in the name of FCAT success. Huge numbers of children have been denied electives so they can be warehoused in remediation classes, decimating bands, athletic teams, and what’s left of our music and art programs. School districts like ours have had to create massive mini-bureaucracies to prepare administer and follow-up on FCAT. And all the while, students, teachers, principals and parents suffer palatable angst throughout the year in fear of “failing” FCAT.