Klarinet Archive - Posting 000883.txt from 2004/03

From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:57:56 -0500


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From: "Allen Levin" <alevin@------.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: [kl] not just the music department

> 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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