On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Dana wrote: > > really? I didn't see that anywhere in the summary, dude. It actually > said achivement testing took place. But don't you think that education > should be culturally appropriate? Or is this only a concern when the > children don't hae brown skin? >
All that "culturally appropriate" BS, all the happy touchy-feely crap from the 70's is what screwed up primary education in this country in the first place. Look like why Montessori schools are successful- they teach core skills. I don't really care if a kid grows up to be a Marxist, but I do care if a kid grows up and can't read because the school was too busy teaching him to be a Marxist to bother with reading skills. > I think you underestimate how much has been spent on failed education > projects. Not at all. I never underestimate the incompetence of bureaucrats. > I thought it was fighting poverty > and that was what you objected to. Good cause, bad solution. For $150 million they could have hired 5,000 full time teachers. > Meanwhile at least he's been > looking at the problem for a while, as oppsed to McCain, who isonly > now realizing that this economics stuff is important. > McCain, meanwhile, has been fighting corruption, fighting for immigration reform, fighting for better financial controls on Fannie and Freddie, fighting for security for Americans at home, and fighting for the US to win the war in Iraq and leave that country a better place than it was when Saddam Hussein ran it as a personal fiefdom/murder gallery/brothel. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:277207 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
