On May 28, 2005, at 4:16 PM, d.brin wrote:
Good seeing some of you at the excellent FiRe Conference.
I have an article in a new book of critical essays about George
Orwell. But the following is cribbed from a recent speech by Bill
Moyers. Frankly, I do not always find him "on".
[...]
"Without a trace of irony, the powers that be have appropriated the
Newspeak vernacular of George Orwell's 1984. They give us a program
vowing no child will be left behind, while cutting funds for educating
disadvantaged children[...]"
I learned recently that the NCLB act has a not-at-all publicized
proviso stating that children's progress reports will be kept on file
at the Pentagon (parents can choose to opt out of this but they have to
KNOW about it first).
This gives the term "No Child Left Behind" a very sinister possible
interpretation.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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