Klarinet Archive - Posting 000881.txt from 2004/03

From: Allen Levin <alevin@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:42:12 -0500

That's not "No Child Left Behind" it is "IDEA". The 20% who are "special"
get priority; the 20% who are "gifted" come next. Then, if there's any
money left, the 60 % who are "normal" get an education. At what point do
you stop accommodating the profoundly retarded child whose mother insists
that he play in the band?

At 10:48 PM 3/15/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Yeah, leave it to "no child left behind" for my hometown music program
>to go to hell. Since they can't have selective recruiting (meaning only
>the kids with decent grades and skills could play in band), now anybody
>can do it. There's no recruitment procedure, 70% dropout rate... It's
>horrible.

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