Comments on: Reading the Government http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/04/reading-the-government/ (bôr'dər-lănd') n. Located on or near a frontier. An indeterminate area or condition. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Doug http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/04/reading-the-government/#comment-6962 Doug Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:13:17 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/04/reading-the-government/#comment-6962 Nursery rhymes often made a political statement. They also put children to sleep at night. In this case, the use of noble-sounding rhetoric is meant to persuade us that students with disabilities - and their teachers - should be measured by the same yardstick as the general population, which renders the concept of disability meaningless. This is both a political statement and a framing of the concept of equity that is absurd. Nonsense shouldn't be the basis for education policy, but maybe we've fallen asleep...It might make sense if you don't think about it. Nursery rhymes often made a political statement. They also put children to sleep at night. In this case, the use of noble-sounding rhetoric is meant to persuade us that students with disabilities - and their teachers - should be measured by the same yardstick as the general population, which renders the concept of disability meaningless. This is both a political statement and a framing of the concept of equity that is absurd. Nonsense shouldn’t be the basis for education policy, but maybe we’ve fallen asleep…It might make sense if you don’t think about it.

]]> By: Andrew Pass http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/04/reading-the-government/#comment-6960 Andrew Pass Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:21:14 +0000 http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2006/08/04/reading-the-government/#comment-6960 I love your comparison between nursery rhymes and news. Let's not forget that some nursery rhymes seek to instill hope in an impossible future. Andrew Pass http://www.Pass-Ed.com/blogger.html I love your comparison between nursery rhymes and news. Let’s not forget that some nursery rhymes seek to instill hope in an impossible future.

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