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Kadie

(15,369 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:14 PM Jun 2012

857 empty school desks on display at the National Mall in Washington, DC - pics

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20: An installation of 857 empty school desks, representing the number of students nationwide who are dropping out every hour of every school day, is on display at the National Mall June 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. The installation was presented by not-for-profit organization College Board to call upon presidential candidates who are running for the White House to make education a more prominent issue in the 2012 campaigns and put the nation’s schools back on track.

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857 empty school desks on display at the National Mall in Washington, DC - pics (Original Post) Kadie Jun 2012 OP

And every one is for a right handed student. shraby Jun 2012 #1

Even tho elleng Jun 2012 #3

bill pawed with both hands lol nt msongs Jun 2012 #5

Prolly! elleng Jun 2012 #6

If a teachers union had done this ancianita Jun 2012 #2

education corporations want this, marginal kids* are not long term profits msongs Jun 2012 #4

shraby

(21,946 posts)

1. And every one is for a right handed student.

Reply to Kadie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:20 PM

Jun 2012

elleng

(130,974 posts)

3. Even tho

Reply to shraby (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:24 PM

Jun 2012

Barack Obama, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton--have been southpaws.

msongs

(67,420 posts)

5. bill pawed with both hands lol nt

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 12:02 AM

Jun 2012

elleng

(130,974 posts)

6. Prolly!

Reply to msongs (Reply #5)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 12:10 AM

Jun 2012

ancianita

(36,095 posts)

2. If a teachers union had done this

Reply to Kadie (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 11:23 PM

Jun 2012

they'd have been arrested. Only a Manhattan-based seller of testing could get away with this. If both parties supported this idea it would solely be to pander to the youth vote. Call me cynical.

msongs

(67,420 posts)

4. education corporations want this, marginal kids* are not long term profits

Reply to Kadie (Original post)

Thu Jun 21, 2012, 12:00 AM

Jun 2012

*marginal kids, meaning ones not just happy as clams to be in school or otherwise see a value in being there that is education related

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