[lbo-talk] Beyond Cosby: finding high quality analyses of contemporary racism and underclass sociology

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Dwayne quoted:
>If students like the Hallway Hangers are to be
>motivated to achieve in school must not be at the
>expense of their self-esteem but in support of 
>it. 

I can't think of a more efficient way to violate this principle than these 
moronic testing regimes.  Is it deliberate?  I mean, I know it's deliberate to 
undermine the public schools in the interests of privatizers and tax cutters, 
but is it also deliberately trying to create a sense of failure?  ('To make 
kids feel hopeless and willing take a job at any price' as someone--not 
particularly a radical--said at a meeting the other day).

Jenny Brown