Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue’s decision to save energy by canceling school for two days last week seemed like nobody’s business but Georgia’s. Then President Bush praised Perdue for his move, saying he “showed leadership by saying, ‘We’ve got to anticipate a problem, here’s what we need to do to correct it.’” Forget the inconvenience Perdue caused parents over a “possible” fuel shortage. What kind of message is it sending the state’s children and the nation generally? How about that K-12 education is eminently expendable?
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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Amen, Rhonda. I was horrified by the implicit attitude of the Georgia governor — “kids don’t matter; heck, their education is expendable, and they don’t lose that much in a week.” Then they worry about children not learning enough. Teachers who do their job and schools that demand excellence know that every day does count.
I think maybe this guy is onto something. Now if we can get him to hire the Kansas BOE as consultants, he can really get rolling.
How does this fit in with the No Child Left Behind?
Sum1,My thought exactly.
I have to agree. Shutting down the schools is a big overreaction.
If they were really worried about efficiency or saving money they would have turned the government schools over to the private sector long ago.
Proud, can you say “corporate lacky”? Seems like we tried the corporate model here in Wichita a while back; Edison Schools. As I recall, they weren’t anything to write home about. So Proud, do you think an education is a right or a privelege?
This act did serve to send the message that education is not terribly important.
IT would have saved far more fuel to keep the schools open and declare those 2 days business holidays. It would also have sent a sorley needed meassage to the kids that just this once you are more important than your parents’ boss.
The Edison Schools experiment is not an example of what I’m talking about. I’m referring to a free market solution that forces schools to compete for students. I want parents to be in charge of their children’s education, not the KNEA or the Kansas B.O.E.
A right is something you have that you could choose to exercise. For example take freedom of speech, you can speak out if you choose to but you don’t have to. You have the ability/power should you want to use it. Nobody can force you to exercise a right nor can it be taken from you. Truancy laws negate education as a right since the government uses it’s police power to force you into education.
A privilege is something you get for no other reason than who you are. So that obviously doesn’t apply to education since it takes work to obtain an education. Nobody just ‘gets one’.
The problem with “No Child Left Behind” is that given no funding for it, the only way no child will be left behind is for none of them to go anywhere to begin with!
Aw come on Jed you know bushspeak.
“Healthy forest initaitive” cut down the forests
“clear skies initaiative”lift restrictions on polluters.
“clean water initaitive”relax mercury pollution standards
No child left behind just means “we decide who gets left behind”