{"id":1689,"date":"2003-08-22T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2003-08-22T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T08:43:04","slug":"the-letter-of-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"THE LETTER OF THE LAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunspot.net\/news\/education\/bal-ho.transfer21aug21,0,1475362.story?coll=bal-education-k12\">Maryland educrats<\/a> are attempting to force a 2nd grader to attend an officially failing school, even though his mother wants hime to transfer under NCLB.  The reason?  He  attended a private school last year (which has since closed).  The educrats interpret NCLB literally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law says children &#8220;enrolled&#8221; in underperforming schools may switch to better ones, and Jareaux believes that also applies to kids who simply live in a school&#8217;s district, but have not registered in the school.<\/p>\n<p>The Howard school system disagrees, interpreting &#8220;enrolled&#8221; to mean that a pupil must attend a failing school to transfer from it. So Jareaux&#8217;s son, who went to a private school in Washington last year, does not qualify.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Insanity.  The mother is frustrated to the breaking point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What are those who move into the district supposed to do?&#8221; asked an exasperated Jareaux, &#8220;Send our kids to a bad school for a year first? I&#8217;m not willing to take that risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;I&#8217;m terrified and petrified of him going there. In my mind it&#8217;s not an option,&#8221; Jareaux said. &#8220;If I have to use my home equity line to pay my bills for the next couple of months so I can home-school him, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She followed the rules.  She registered him in June, prior to the school being declared a federal disaster area.  The educrats should be ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland educrats are attempting to force a 2nd grader to attend an officially failing school, even though his mother wants hime to transfer under NCLB. The reason? He attended a private school last year (which has since closed). The educrats interpret NCLB literally: The law says children &#8220;enrolled&#8221; in underperforming schools may switch to better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}