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[quote=Anonymous]"Policy makers, corporate investors and education privatizers are the problem." These people are all adults and probably parents too. Just like the adult parents of FARM students. The problem in education more complicated than saying any of these people are the sole issue. The policy makers are the ones who created NCLB and testing which in turn ended up costing counties millions to try to educate their ESOL/FARM students. Before the NCLB policy there were few requirements to hold underperforming schools accountable. Was it a good move for the country to require more of FARM students? People at low performing schools are still advocating to keep some of the NLB controls, so it sounds like NCLB has been better than nothing. Corporate Investors pay money to help schools. I have a hard time seeing how you can entirely fault them even if they push a certain product. It's free money to the schools. Education Privatizers take children out of the public school system which is not necessarily bad. Less cost for the county to educate some students, but less interest in paying taxes for schools. [/quote]

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