Seuss-inspired Prophecy?

NEA Today, Mar 2005 by Tucker, Mike

'If our small school does not do well, Then it will be torn down, And you will have to go to school In dreary Flobbertown.'

HOORAY FOR DIFFENDOOFER DAY!a Dr. Seuss-inspired story-tells about an unorthodox school with eccentric teachers and oddball lessons. Suddenly, the outside world intrudes: If students can't pass a special test, the school will close. Sound like today? We think so, but the book was published in 1998, more than two years before the No Child Left Behind law passed. The book was originally sketched out by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), and completed by Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith after Geisel died in 1991. More at www.seussville.com/titles/diffendoofer/.>-MIKE TUCKER

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