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Feds Propose National Database of College Students
Dore writes "The Department of Education wants to collect personally identifiable information on all college students, including name, address, birth date, gender, race, and SSN. Privacy is assured. The No Child Left Behind Act, which holds primary and secondary schools accountable prompted this line of thinking. Now colleges should be held accountable. If you made it to college, you were not left behind, and further attempts at monitoring citizens should be."
"Having over 6 teachers in my immediate family and once concidering the profession. no child left behind is a useless inititive.Why have a program that looks great but puts requirements on schoool programs without giving them the funding to reach said goals. The problem has never been documenting who gets behind, but ensuring that the school budget gets funded and passed before you fund prisons and roads. getting back to the problem why doesn't the government solve the public school problem before they take on colleges."
I hope you weren't considering a career as an English teacher. A period ends a sentence; putting one in the middle is generally frowned upon. Furthermore, one has more than six members, not over 6. Interrogatives (questions) are traditionally ended with a question mark rather than a period. The first word of a sentence is traditionally capitilized.
the list goes on, but. i grow tired, so I am concidering ending this little diatribe? Perhaps more children should be left behind. 8^}
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The database should really only be used for tracking foreign students, especially the ones that come over here from China where there's not a lot of control over the activities of individuals inside the country (and a lot of opportunity for them to go other places without much oversight).
The biggest threat right now is from foreign terrorists and there's a lot of anti-American sentiment/activity in foreign student groups around the world. It's a breeding ground for Al Quaeda recruits and if we can catch them before they join up, it will be easier for Homeland Security/CIA/FBI/etc. to stop them from killing more innocent Americans.
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Here's a better idea: do your fucking job as a parent! Since when is it the responsibility of "society" to make your spoiled brat behave? Good luck with the private schools, they'll throw troublemakers out on their ass, unless the parents are willing to pay > $20,000 a year to keep them in. I'm sorry that you had no control over your actions at age 16, but the rest of the students in a public or private school classroom shouldn't have to suffer for it. Afterall, somebody's got to pump the gas.