Following up on an earlier story blaming NCLB for states' graduation rate games, here's Gerry Bracey blaming NCLB for a teacher who reportedly threatened students if they didn't score well on upcoming test (The Degeneration of American Education). How is this NCLB's fault, again?
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Psychiatrists have long spoken about people seeing things they want to see rather than things that are actually there.
An extreme case of this delusion occurred when Alexander Russo said I blamed NCLB for a teacher threatening students.
The threat was from a principal against his science teachers. He threatened to kill them and himself if science scores didn't rise sufficiently, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle.
I don't know why Russo feels a need to discredit me to the point where he cannot read simple text accurately, but his attempt fails miserably.
My 500-word essay on atrocities committed in the name of high-stakes testing can be read at www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-bracey.
Jerry (not "Gerry") Bracey
Posted by: Gerald W. Bracey | March 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM