This isn't an April Fools' joke, but I wish.
My home state of SC is considering legislation that would model state reading and grade retention policy on Just Read, Florida.
Adult leadership in a high-poverty state has expressed support for holding back children based on test scores that show that those children have the audacity to be impoverished....
SC is one of many states addicted to punishment but blind to inequity...
PLEASE read more HERE and share.
Monday, April 01, 2013
HELP Stop the Spread of "Florida Formula Flu"
“One of the violences perpetuated by illiteracy is the suffocation of the consciousness and the expressiveness of men and women who are forbidden from reading and writing, thus limiting their capacity to write about their reading of the world so they can rethink about their original reading of it.” Paulo Freire, Teachers as Cultural Workers
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Ha I never knew that about SC. They do one of the worst unemployment rates in the country so I think their leadership needs to change some things.
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