On Nov 14, 2007 10:02 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You still aren't hearing me. The issues with schools are fundamental > and not within the capacity of a child to "overcome," assuming he is > mature enough to realize the value of learning in the first place. You > are trivializing very large issues and in that sense proving my point. > How is a child (or even a parent) supposed to "overcome" the way > schools reward mediocrity at the expense of original thinking? Just to > pick one of many issues?
not within the capacity of the child to overcome? Please expand on this. Because myself, and I'd be willing to bet, many of the people on this list, attended schools. I"m curious what fundamental issues existed that I did not have the capacity to overcome? Am I incapable of original thinking...just to pick one of many issues? Listen, maybe you feel your children simply could not succeed in a regular school setting for whatever reason. Hey, fine, I don't think less of them or you, honest. But I think you are wrong if you believe that the system is so flawed that NO ONE can succeed there....because that's just not true. > > > You're pulling out the argument usually made about bullying. It's > fallacious there and it's even more fallacious when applied to > systemic problems. Not sure what you mean here? I didn't mention bullying, nor was I thinking about it.... > > And by the way, you're a bit obsessive about fundamentalists, They are > not the root of all evil. I'll grant you that I am a bit obsessive about fundamentalists...and specifically, religious fundamentalists. Are they the root of ALL evil, of course not. But they cause a heck of a lot of headaches, especially in my part of the world (namely, Kansas!). -- And all this could be Just a dream so it seems I was never much good at goodbye ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246404 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
