Reply #76: None of us can deal with everything. [View All]

It was my experience that private schools had a vastly smaller problem with bullies. Perhaps studying this disparity would lead to some solutions. I understand a lot of the very real problems you point out in your post about not being able to cure many things, and especially like your observations about zero tolerance. An expulsion like the lesbians received, is absurd, and surely has unintended consequences.

In your guess about me being for NCLB, you'd be wrong. I think it's likely designed to reduce the ability of children to think, and to emphasize memorizing the test questions and answers, but this is deductive based upon secondhand information. The NCLB system is likely great for promoting official propaganda, and perhaps for collecting personal information for inclusion in private databases. That NCLB seems to be occurring at the same time in U.S. history that the Constitution is being openly shredded by the Executive Branch, is revealing.

Thanks for being mostly reasonable. I write 'mostly' because of you still haven't dealt with the issue of slowing faster students down, and that was a big part of what I wrote about when you replied with sarcastic scorn to my post #27.

But that's okay, none of us can deal with everything.