Comments on: George Carlin on NCLB, Education and More http://madisonamps.org/2008/06/23/george-carlin-on-nclb-education-and-more/ Tue, 15 May 2012 19:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gary l. stout http://madisonamps.org/2008/06/23/george-carlin-on-nclb-education-and-more/#comment-584 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:10:21 +0000 http://mmsdamps.wordpress.com/?p=566#comment-584 Carlin is accurate when he talks of the Owners of our country. I call them the Power Elite. I wrote about them and NCLB in a response to an article in the WSJ in March 2005.

Part of what I said was:

The Bush Administration’s NCLB agenda appears to be to insure that our public schools fail in order to attain privatization of public education, and to create an educational system to guarantee a minimum wage work force assured to support the continued monetary success of the corporate and political powerful.

A child’s school experience s should be driven more by nurture and nature than by corporate-like quarterly reports that are more concerned with punishment and profit than appropriate pedagogy.

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