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DWIAWVSSBP#

[This piece was originally posted at nicenet.org as part of my participation in the NWP Electronic Writing Marathon.] FROM: Karen McComas   (09/04/04) SUBJECT: DWIAWVSSBP So I know the assignment was to pull something out of the article and respond to it but I want to pull something out of what Sondra said and respond to that instead.  Sondra wrote: I want stories. In my posting for the assignment I wrote about how I was finding all these articles online about how well our schools were doing which is complete and utter bulls*%t.  I sensed, as I was searching, that these contrived and artificial reports were hiding something and in fact they are hiding the stories and my guess is that the stories are hidden for a couple of reasons.  First, the Decider of What Information About WV Schools Should Be Publicized (DWIAWVSSBP) thinks that the stories we have aren't showing what needs to be shown.  That is, the DWIAWVSSBP has decided that the truth, the overwhelming truth for the majority of WV classroom teachers, cannot be made public because of any number of reasons (we all know what they are, top of the list probably includes something about money though).  Second, the DWIAWVSSBP fails to recognize the immense value of the stories whether or not they are considered to be positive and negative.  Bottom line is that until someone realizes that we must tell the real stories, the stories of the majority, then we'll never really know how the system works or doesn't work.  And without knowing what those stories can tell us, the system can never really be fixed.

Posted by Karen McComas on 9/6/04; 9:36:16 AM to the Miscellaneous Rants Department
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