No collection of pictures from that day is complete without
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Kaplan left - that's great; but, what about Bridgepoint Ed., Corinthian Colleges, Assoc. of Private Sector Colleges & Univ, K12 & Insight Schools, National Heritage Academy, Int'l Assoc for K-12 Online Learning?
Is Kaplan ALEC's "token" drop out? When ALEC dropped their 2 task forces recently....what did ALEC do??? They shipped responsibility to National Center for Public Policy....they have their backup plans!!
In addition, what possible difference does it make once the ALEC "model" laws are already implemented? They got what they wanted...they'll rejoin next year.
The idea of ending "junk mail" is more complicated than one thinks. First of all, one has to define "junk mail." Are we talking about all third class mail? Secondly, perhaps you hate 99% of your third class mail, but you enjoy your Pottery Barn monthly catalog or some other catalog. Well, if you want to ban all third class mail, you may actually miss those few catalogs, or whatever, you actually like. On the other hand, if all of this massive, impersonal, not asked for mail was abolished, perhaps the senders would be forced to target their addressees better. Send people things they actually might be interested in. This is why the best solution may be the one where an addressee actually picks and chooses the bulk mail they don't want. Also, if I'm not mistaken, one can refuse any mailpiece. If one put a note on their mailbox, "First and Second Class Mail Only," the mail carrier would not deliver the third class mail and the like.
I am not a fan of alec, I think that their basic objective is to end the last vestiges of democracy in America, but retain the trappings thereof. There are a few things that are worthwhile in the list you give of alec objectives: school uniforms, single sex education, and online classes. The school uniforms would certainly help to reduce the load of teachers having to be clothing police. A school must have certain standards in what to wear, otherwise a free-for-all approach can lead to results that the school doesn’t want. Single sex education can be useful in that the girls don’t have to be intimidated by the boys and the boys can be a little more settled without having to show off for the girls. This is just a small point on that. The online education can be extremely useful to a school district. In most districts homebound students must have access to full instruction, which can result in several tutors being required to handle the students. There may be too many students requiring homebound instruction or teachers may be reluctant to go into the home for one reason or another. Online instruction may solve the problem.
I have posted the photos I took at the April 29th protest in Cincinnati here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mentatmark/sets/72157627046282322/
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