The NYT reported on Sunday that 9,000 city students’ failure to pass new third-grade exit exams was followed by a massive parent volunteer effort aimed at raising student scores over the summer.
Digna Sanchez of Learning Leaders offered this quixotic nugget: “It’s the first time we’ve had a summer initiative of this kind,” Sanchez said, “Clearly, the end of so-called social promotion for third graders is a controversial issue.”
Yes, that makes perfect sense. Parents must be volunteering to express disapproval of the law, not to help children learn to read or anything.
Does it surprise anyone that this little dust-up occurred at the High School of Legal Studies? It’s good to see both teachers and students leading by example.
Come on, you know you love us. Litigators are so warm and fuzzy!
I was planning to comment on Christopher Hitchens’ enviably eloquent take-down of Fahrenheit 9/11 when Kyle beat me to it. Too few coherent essays are both stylistically over the top and substantively below the belt. Hitchens gets extra credit for using the word “lugubrious” in a sentence.
"You would be a very good lawyer."
- fortune cookie at Tony Cheng's