Klarinet Archive - Posting 000888.txt from 2004/03

From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:26:19 -0500

It is not my intention to start another long non-clarinet discussion. I
don't intend to offend anyone, but I am SO tired of seeing the expense of
working with the disabled used as the whipping boy to cut their crutches out
from under them when sports are almost never cut.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Drennan" <psa119@------.net>
To: <klarinet@------.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] not just the music department

> Sorry about the blank message. I double-clicked when I should have
clicked.
>
> That is nowhere near what he was talking about. This kind of cruel
> exageration is responsible for the silent gutting of programs that are the
> only thing that most parents of disabled student have to deal with the
needs
> of their children. Republicans and conservatives make a bigh deal about
> legislation like this, but their lack of funding for it as well as the
> behind the scenes efforts to "save money" (for themselves and their
buddies)
> that make sure that the disabled are seen as little as possible and
> definitely not heard. Unless, of course, they can be used in a photo op or
a
> campaign ad that shows how generous the GOP can be.
>
> Gary Drennan
> Blind Clarinetist-Commited Christian
> Kerry in 2004
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Allen Levin" <alevin@------.net>
> To: <klarinet@------.org>
> 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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