Who said it had anything to do with PC. K-12 schools have had problems for a long time. When you have school boards that are not willing to pay beginning teachers much more than you'd make as a manager at a McDonald's well you sort of get what you pay for. It must be fun to advocate a simple solution, while conveniently ignoring endemic problems for years.
Instead of complaining about PC this or PC that how about some realistic solutions. Here's one, decide what are the necessary core academic subjects that a person needs to be a citizen. Then ensure that the kids graduating from your school systems are at the very least competent in those subjects. This would mean treating teachers like professionals, and paying them such. Giving them the tools to teach - not 30 year old books that were useless when new. How about school upkeep? For instance in Florida Gov Bush's administration has actually cut spending on educational infrastructure - buildings, labs and classrooms. Not getting distracted by red herrings such as the fad du jour for education, or the rant of the week by any extremist pressure group. larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 4:36 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: From the makers of the Palm Beach Hanging Chad... > > > (*sigh*) now this is really sad. > > IMO this is what we get for trying to be PC in school, pander > to every > philosophy and culture known to exist and make every individual feel > accepted. > > It scares me to no end that the US will, some day, be in the hands of > "non-competitive" people. We'll have a football season with everyone > winning the Super Bowl! > > .. level playing field... hah! Maybe they ought to level the playing > field up instead of down. I feel sorry for the kids graduating from > schools that feel they have to give them everything and then > going into > a workforce that actually requires them to pay attention and > put forth > an effort. > > Notice they'll make it so that everyone can pass but they'd > never go for > a mandatory military or public service. > > And they wonder why good workers are so hard to find. > > Hatton > > (and yes, I did censor this before I sent it... this is the > toned down > version.) > > Howie Hamlin wrote: > > > ..comes the history test where 23% is passing. To get an > A, they need to get just over half the answers right. A B > grade requires > > only 39 correct answers. > > > > http://news.lycos.com/news/story.asp?n_4=1§ion=MyLycos&pitem=AP-History- Test&rev=20020530&pub_tag=APONLINE > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
