Every child left as road kill...

Bush's 'Every child left as road kill' legislation was designed, in part, to make Silverado S&L bandit Bush brother, Neil and his fledging, Dubai-funded computer company - Ignite! Learning - a means of making a living now that he is permanently barred from working in the financial industry after costing the taxpayers over $1 billion in 'bail-outs' in the 1980s.  In fact, when George I and Barbara donated money to Katrina victims, they specified that it be spent on Neil's Ignite!

As of October 2006, over 13 U.S. school districts (out of over 14,000 school districts nation-wide have used federal funds made available through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 in order to buy Ignite's products at $3,800 apiece.   Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush

Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/3742329.html

The Bush family openly, blantantly, and unabashedly live off the public titty - always have, and looks like they always will.  Watch "Bush Family Fortunes" for free here:  http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=42

by Amanda Lang (22 articles, 12943 quicklinks, 417 diaries, 501 comments) on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 4:27:23 PM
 

bush and plagiarism*

You know bush "borrowed" the no child left behind phrase without permission from the Children's Defense Fund where Marion Wright Edelman reports that it was her phrase, he never asked permission, and she had to go find another phrase; now Leave No Child Behind....go figure...

*synonyms for plagiarism: copying, lifting, stealing, illegal use, bootlegging

by jaine benson (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 32 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 7:45:58 PM
 

THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL, BUT i CAN'T READ IT.

Read this. 

The charming Neil Bush was having a dinner guest over on the same day

that Ronald Reagan, our president, was shot in anassasination attempt.

Funny that it was the brother of Mr. Hinckley, who had shot the Preszident.

The Hinckley's are long time friends of the Bush clan.

I will not run (in the dog run) even if I am nominated.

Wolfie canoe and lassie too!

by Wolfie (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 871 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:40:45 AM
 

let's leave the union behind!

You wrote: "It doesn't start in the home, nor with the student. It starts with the attitude of the educational system towards the student. And that will need a complete overhaul."

 You're right: get rid of the no-good teachers' Union, who work only for the teachers and don't give a crap about the kids, and we'll see improvement!

by shielah jones (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 27 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 12:57:17 PM
 

What short sighted comments.

Do you all remember when there was no drop out scandal?  Who do you think was responsible for that? Do you think the educational system and teachers have changed so much that it is now responsible for massive dropout rates and inadequate education of those students who stay?  Well, there are poor teachers, often located in minority areas where parents don't pay attention.  I can tell you that my kids got a decent education - in Georgia! - because we and other parents in my relatively affluent area made sure they did and that included monitoring teachers.

These days, as a substitute teacher, I see daily what happens in a variety of classrooms.  I'm impressed,  most days, with the care and hard work of teachers, and with the insurmountable odds they face.  I've learned that no one can force a child to be educated if they don't want an education. And why would a child decide to drop out while occupying a public school desk? Because they don't value education, an attitude that comes from home and neighborhood. 

In the Atlanta area, three teachers in various parts of suburbia have been physically assaulted by unhappy parents in league with their underachieving kids in the past year, and injured seriously enough to be a medical emergency.

I've learned that the legions of non-or  poor-English-speaking children, who occupy and overwhelm many classrooms, are an incredible drain on the teacher, the classroom, and other students who are educationally shortchanged while the teacher tries to explain concepts to the linguistically lost.   Each and every marginal English speaking child in the classroom is in a taxpayer financed ESOL class.  Those classes should be studied to find out  if they make any difference or if we can just save the money, which is my guess.

The real drop out rate that you folks should be concerned with is among teachers.  After you finish blaming them for your faililngs with your kids, after you drive them out of the profession with your myopia and your demands, who will teach them?  You?

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by Cameron Salisbury (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments) on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 9:32:09 AM