You asked if there was some way we could spread the news? Of course there is. E-mail can be the perfect way. I'd never heard of slashdot before but a friend sent me the url for this article. His message was very clear, "you need to read this and pass it on." Obviously not everyone who reads the article will understand but some will. I've forwarded the url to my former high school principal, my local newspaper, and the editor of my alma matter's newspaper. If I can find the e-mail of my old school district's new superintendent I'll send it to him too. We basically need to make the administrators in primary and secondary ed aware of what's happening so that they can prevent it from happening in their own schools and put pressure on those of their colleagues who are allowing it. The only way it's going to stop is through dialogue. And we're not going to get that dialogue unless we make complete pains of ourselves and insist on it. I personally would rather not have the intelligent, motivated kids in the world shoved off into a small dark corner to rot.
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You asked if there was some way we could spread the news? Of course there is. E-mail can be the perfect way. I'd never heard of slashdot before but a friend sent me the url for this article. His message was very clear, "you need to read this and pass it on." Obviously not everyone who reads the article will understand but some will. I've forwarded the url to my former high school principal, my local newspaper, and the editor of my alma matter's newspaper. If I can find the e-mail of my old school district's new superintendent I'll send it to him too. We basically need to make the administrators in primary and secondary ed aware of what's happening so that they can prevent it from happening in their own schools and put pressure on those of their colleagues who are allowing it. The only way it's going to stop is through dialogue. And we're not going to get that dialogue unless we make complete pains of ourselves and insist on it. I personally would rather not have the intelligent, motivated kids in the world shoved off into a small dark corner to rot.