I think public education is failing everywhere in the world.
I'm involved in higher education and I'm becoming acutely
aware that none of the models that we have are well adapted
to the kinds of population that we have today and the
changing demands that education faces. Education was until
recently an exclusively elitist preserve and we don't yet
have a way of even understanding what a real mass education
should look like. Most of the theories are just a joke. If
you think the US is bad, try South Africa. Anyway I welcome
this discussion.
Tahir
>>> "Tom Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/30 8:09 AM >>>
Joan:
I too agree with Tony that Carrol's remarks were snippy and
hostile.
You wrote:
It's not going
>to happen, until the teachers are apportioning the funds.
Even then, I
>wonder...
>The whole concept of 'public trust' seems to have vanished
in the public
>sector.
>Joan
The concept of trusting schools -- or wondering about
teachers -- vanished
for me a long time ago. When we realized the damage public
schools were
doing to the mind of our son, his mother and I took him out
of the 6th
grade, bought him a computer and homeschooled him ourselves.
The freedom
that resulted created a happier, better educated kid who
received his GED at
16, entered college two years early and is now doing exactly
what he wishes
to do, based upon informed choices he was able to acquire by
himself.
I feel we liberated him from a crippling form of slavery
that threatened to
warp his life. I don't see the public school sector as left
or right
anymore, merely institutionalized failure.
Tom
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