Re: Bush's speech

[effervescible]

Okay, I realize that the crowd reaction to Kerry's speech was probably much the same (didn't catch it myself), but it is really freaking silly how everyone has an orgasm whenever Bush finishes a sentence.

Oh don't EVEN talk about No Child Left Behind.  Ask a fucking teacher if you want to know what the schools think of it!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You know, I haven't yet spoken to a teacher who liked the No Child Left Behind. granted, I don't talk to many, but it's interesting that none yet have like it.

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

how everyone has an orgasm whenever Bush finishes a sentence.

I think they're just orgasmic that he actually managed to finish a sentence. :P

[powerof3.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say that. ;)

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

It's one of those things that just screams to be said, really.

[angstymcgoth.livejournal.com]

Which is scarier, the speech...or the crowd?

If it's any consolation, I'm hearing some very un-sexy groans coming from the tv room around here everytime Bush finishes a sentence.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I couldn't suspend disbelief long enough to finish a sentence.

*shakes head* We are all so screwed.

[kenzier.livejournal.com]

Oh don't EVEN talk about No Child Left Behind. Ask a fucking teacher if you want to know what the schools think of it.

No shit. So many of my teachers despise it with a firey, burning passion equal to that of 7 layers of hell disagree with it.

My friend had to do a Controversy debate over it last year and she gave me professional research specs and plan outlines that would blow your mind.

[cadesama.livejournal.com]

Oh don't EVEN talk about No Child Left Behind.

Interestingly, the other day he made a comment about how the abilities gap is closing in public schools. My mom was sneering about how very truthful that was all day. The gap *is* closing, after all: the top is coming down to meet the middle.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

WORD. My mother's said the same. She's out, though - retired last June.

[cadesama.livejournal.com]

Lucky your mom. Mine . . . well, technically she already tried to get out. She moved from classroom to professional development, but then that district was seized by a psychotic superintendent who makes Bush's policies look fuzzy (seriously, the media clamp down is frightening) and she retired out of moral reasons. And to write a book.

Last year she needed a new job (different district) while trying to sell the book and because of the budget slashing by the federal government and the manditory state pay raises for teachers she was considered *over*-qualified and therefore didn't get a job until a middle school came down desperate because they had too many kids and one of the teachers was transferring to reading only rather than language arts/elective/reading.

Needless to say, we hatesss NCLB.

[nut-meg.livejournal.com]

Gee, does your mom live in Nashville?

They've got one of those superintendents. My mom was a school social worker and she retired. It wasn't just because of this guy, but now that she's out he's gotten worse and worse. She's so glad she's out.

She has a friend who was a teacher and she retired about 8 weeks into the school year because she considered the policies of No Child Left Alive and the superintendent "child abuse".

[cadesama.livejournal.com]

Scarily enough, we're no where near Nashville. Horrifying to find out that we're not the only ones.

because she considered the policies of No Child Left Alive and the superintendent "child abuse".

We're not *quite* that bad. The corruption is mostly in press supression (anyone who gives an interview not vetter will be fired) and misappropriation of funds (buying huge SUVs as school vehicles, paying for large public showings of movies/speeches that no one attends, and ripping the gov't off for the "bilingual" program). Oh, and buying a school vehicle for a principal whose personal vehicle was vandalized by students rather than dealing with the discipline problems.

[kudzita.livejournal.com]

Ayup. He didn't talk about abstinence-only sex ed again, did he? I just remember that as soon as he said that in the state of the union, everyone in the room started yelling at the tv.
I really cannot take another four years of this :P

[mymzee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a teacher and a school psychologist in my life and they will rant for HOURS on end about No Child Left behind.

Our president is the dumbest dumb that ever dumbed.

[crimson311.livejournal.com]

i dont know you but i had to say that i love your lj icon.

[nut-meg.livejournal.com]

Yes the speech, and the whole convention, was very Nuremberg 1937. Creepy.