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user-inactivated · 4008 days ago · link · · parent · post: Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking.
Yeah. You're right. Screw it. NCLB germinated in Texas, and by the time I was in high school mine had built a giant "practice facility" for the football team (grant money of course) and we had to fight when they considered cutting the Latin program. Also in elementary school we often had to -- I swear to god -- share the little plastic recorders which we played, with our mouths, primarily in "music" class. (Those things didn't make music.) We were hit pretty hard by NCLB because there are so, so many poor schools in Texas. EDIT: earthquake!