Obama Exempting Schools From Testing Mandate

Big Hairy News ^ | August 8, 2011 | Scooter Van Neuter

[EveningStar]

Obama administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan is announcing today a system of waivers relieving public schools from federally-mandated reading and math proficiency tests.

[NEMDF]

So what are they going to use for “standards”?

[Williams]

Sure, it will help the economy to give up on educational standards and reward the cheating. /s

[EveningStar]

ping

[TSgt]

tess r rasis yo

[pettifogger]

Proudly posting without reading the article . . . BUT this sure looks like the administration’s response to the Atlanta (and coming soon to a big city near you) Cheating Scandal.

[bgill]

So, if your school failed, you can get a waiver not to take it next time, right?

[Haiku Guy]

To be followed next year, no doubt, with a triumphal press release about how average scores have soared since all of the failing schools were removed from the program.

If we are this stupid as a nation, it is because the bulk of us were educated in public schools.

[cripplecreek]

Grammar schools and high schools throughout Germany now had National Socialist teachers of questionable ability forming young minds in strict adherence to the Party motto: "The supreme task of the schools is the education of youth for the service of Volk and State in the National Socialist spirit." They taught Nazi propaganda as truth and had their young students recite it back from memory.

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Nazi scientists, educated before Hitler, complained they were hindered in developing new super-weapons by the recruitment of graduates from the Nazified school system. German Army leaders also complained that young officer candidates displayed "a simply inconceivable lack of elementary knowledge."

They didn't even know enough to capitalize the first letter of a proper name. But for Hitler, these shortcomings really didn't matter. The school system now produced what he needed – unquestioning young men ready to obediently serve the Fatherland unto death amid Nazi slogans such as: Believe, Obey, Fight!

[Sacajaweau]

Stuck on stupid

[La Enchiladita]

Oh yeah, hot on the heels of the Atlanta "cheatgate" scandal...

Last month, 178 teachers and principals at 44 Atlanta public schools were found to be responsible for, or directly involved in, cheating on the state's standardized test, according to a report issued by the Georgia governor's office following an extensive investigation.

What a coinky-dink...

[EveningStar]

You really need to click that link. ;)

(BTW, this thread has the real article)

[microgood]

The Federal Government should have zero involvement with K-12 education.

[afnamvet]

I guess schools can deem its students as graduated. There could be an opportunity here to end public schools. S/

[Malesherbes]

Is Big Hairy News a subsidiary of Onion?

[Calamari]

Make them up to fit the results.

[NEMDF]

That could help a bit with the deficit and debt. Unless those kids want to start drawing unemployment already.

[tcrlaf]

Obama is the GOD-KING! Didn’t you know that? He now decides which laws he will enforce, and which ones he will ignore.
PRAISE HIM!!!

[EveningStar]

LOL. If you’re interested in the real story, see post 12 for the link. :)

[Terry Mross]

So obama is giving waivers on his friend Ted Kennedy’s education bill. Makes sense. He’s handing out waivers on his own healthcare bill.

George Bush should come out with a statement. But he won’t. obama is his friend.