From: "Rich Gauszka" 

It's just tacky way to give a charitable contribution while making sure
your son gets the benefits.

Remember this is the Neil Bush of Silverado fame

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35297-2003Dec27?language=printer

However, Ignite! has been attacked by other educators for dumbing down
history. Among its controversial aspects is a lesson that depicts the
Seminole Wars in a cartoon football game -- "the Jacksons vs. the
Seminoles" -- the animated Indians smashing helmets with animated
white settlers. The Constitutional Convention is taught in a rap song: It
was 55 delegates from 12 states

Took one hot Philadelphia summer to create

A perfect document for their imperfect times

Franklin, Madison, Washington -- a lot of the cats

Who used to be in the Continental Congress way back.

Ignite! is working well, Bush wrote in an e-mail: "Teachers and
students have given anecdotal feedback that confirms the powerful impact
our program is having on student achievement, student focus and attitudes,
and teacher success in reaching all of their students."

But at Whitney reviews were less laudatory. "The kids felt pretty
strongly that what this was about was lowering the bar," says Humes.

Humes wasn't impressed, either. "There was a lot of rhyming and
games," he says. "It reminded me of what my son uses -- but he's
in kindergarten."

When Bush spoke at Whitney, several students began arguing with him.

"He was very surprised," Humes recalls. "You had to see the
look on his face when one young woman got up and said she liked calculus.
He said it was useless. This is the branch of mathematics that makes space
travel possible, and he said it was useless."

"Mark"  wrote in message news:44235f81{at}w3....
> I'm not familiar with "Ignite" is it a bad program or
something, or does
> it work well to help students learn?
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:44235d63{at}w3....
>> Propping up Neil Bush while calling it charity
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>> http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/14170174.htm
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>> Barbara Bush earmarked Katrina donation for son's company
>> HOUSTON - Former first lady Barbara Bush gave relief money to the
>> Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund on the condition that it be spent to buy
>> educational software from her son Neil's company.
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