Toledo Free Press Schools the Toledo Blade Over Talker’s Non-Racist ‘Monkeys’ Remark
Especially on Martin Luther King Day, it seems worth asking whether or not the assassinated civil rights leaders would have cared more about: Whether a talk radio host told his audience, in reference to the No Child Left Behind Act causing many school districts, including the Toledo Public Schools (TPS), to believe they must “teach to the test” to avoid serious sanctions: “teaching little monkeys to peel bananas and so on and then doing it correctly on cue, does not mean that they’ve learned everything except a funny parlor trick.” The fact that TPS is rated dead-last in its metro area , and
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