Actually Hogg, I have seen the Guilford County Board of Education complain about No Child Left Behind, not to mention Gov. Easley’s class size reduction initiatives. The problem is they do it pretty much the same way they do everything, in kind of a wimpy, understated manner. I’m not trying to be mean, it’s just the way it is when you “take politics out” of education policy. I hear what they’re saying, but it’s just not compelling.
By the way, I couldn’t help but notice that Charles Davenport Jr. echoed my sentiment when he called for a non-educator to replace out going Superintendent Terry Grier:
Grier’s replacement should be someone with a degree in something other than education, who has never been a teacher or principal and who has never served on a school board. True education reform — for which the need is obvious — will happen only at the direction of someone who has avoided the whole-child, anti-testing, multiculturalist indoctrination routinely inflicted on professional educrats.
Again, I’ve heard Grier complain many times about NCLB. He just did it in educrat language.
