Comments on: Back to school http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-4551 Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:18:11 +0000 http://www.aarynbelfer.com/?p=538#comment-4551 It makes me sad to think that school and education is becoming a luxury, seemingly another case of have and have not's. The article was poignant and scary. It makes me sad to think that school and education is becoming a luxury, seemingly another case of have and have not’s. The article was poignant and scary.

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-4478 Jennifer Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:01:46 +0000 http://www.aarynbelfer.com/?p=538#comment-4478 I have not yet found that quiet place to read the article... but as an educator in the public school system for 16 years, I can already begin to imagine what the article says. It's nothing really new but more of the same and worse than before. Our country does not in any way value its future. If we did education would be available and equal. If we did, childcare and preschools would available to everyone. Teachers would be paid more than doctors and lawyers without whom they would not have been able to get their education in the first place to succeed in their fields. Healthcare would available to everyone who needed it no matter what your income. It's hard to feel that we can matter, but voting does matter and in order to make any kind of change EVERYONE has to step up and vote and vote for the candidate who will at least attempt to make changes and fix what's gone wrong, terribly wrong, in the last 8 years. Don't leave any child behind when you have the chance to change the future. I have not yet found that quiet place to read the article… but as an educator in the public school system for 16 years, I can already begin to imagine what the article says. It’s nothing really new but more of the same and worse than before. Our country does not in any way value its future. If we did education would be available and equal. If we did, childcare and preschools would available to everyone. Teachers would be paid more than doctors and lawyers without whom they would not have been able to get their education in the first place to succeed in their fields. Healthcare would available to everyone who needed it no matter what your income.
It’s hard to feel that we can matter, but voting does matter and in order to make any kind of change EVERYONE has to step up and vote and vote for the candidate who will at least attempt to make changes and fix what’s gone wrong, terribly wrong, in the last 8 years. Don’t leave any child behind when you have the chance to change the future.

]]> By: annie http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-4412 annie Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:23 +0000 http://www.aarynbelfer.com/?p=538#comment-4412 Beautifully written! Amen. Beautifully written! Amen.

]]> By: LilSass http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-4387 LilSass Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:51:14 +0000 http://www.aarynbelfer.com/?p=538#comment-4387 Aaryn, of all the blogs I read, yours is one of the few where I find myself nodding my head as I read along. Your previous post about Palin and this ... hit home for me. I know we're like-minded and sometimes we get caught up living in progressive parts of the country. But it's always nice to read other's thoughts, furthermore affirming how we feel about the sad state of affairs. We can sit around and be pissed til the cows come home. But if you want to see change, you have to make change happen - in whatever way possible from your own corner of the universe. Aaryn, of all the blogs I read, yours is one of the few where I find myself nodding my head as I read along. Your previous post about Palin and this … hit home for me. I know we’re like-minded and sometimes we get caught up living in progressive parts of the country. But it’s always nice to read other’s thoughts, furthermore affirming how we feel about the sad state of affairs.

We can sit around and be pissed til the cows come home. But if you want to see change, you have to make change happen – in whatever way possible from your own corner of the universe.

]]> By: Jenn @ Juggling Life http://www.aarynbelfer.com/2008/09/nclb-indeed.html/comment-page-1#comment-4363 Jenn @ Juggling Life Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:02:55 +0000 http://www.aarynbelfer.com/?p=538#comment-4363 Amen. Amen.

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