-Caveat Lector-
At 06:06 AM 1/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>In a message dated 1/13/99 10:04:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< So, when the teacher unions run full-page ads to "save our schools",
> we know they really do mean their schools - not ours. >>
>
>Maybe you should think about the life teachers lived when they unionized.
>Mostly they were paid tiny salaries, and sent to live with members of the
>community.
BLW: How is the above relevant to today's situation? Has the union
improved the quality of education?
>Further, no school can teach everything.
BLW: Successfully teaching academics would be satisfactory.
>It's time those who want
>their children to have certain ideas and values to present those ideas and
>values at home, and if they want to be sure the kids are learning those ideas
>and values, it helps if the parents talk about the ideas and live up to those
>values.
BLW: It's time that parents eliminate the necessity of daily countering
political indoctrination, religious dogma, selective history, anti-family
propaganda, and a plethora of brainwashing activities forced upon their
child at school in the name of "molding the whole person".
It's time that parents refuse to accept the role of scapegoat for teachers
who cannot teach. (What other employment besides teaching and the "child
advocacy" industry provides one such a handy excuse for even the most
egregious lack of skill, intellect or ethics??)
It's time parents demand academic excellence - teachers who cannot pass a
competency exam should be summarily fired, better yet, not hired in the
first place. Degrees in academic subjects should be a requirement to
teach, rather than two years of general ed and two to four additional years
in advanced flannel board.
Slamming teachers' unions is not the answer to the problems we have
>with American youth. Prudy
Supporting a government sponsored monopoly and systematically usurping
parental rights has clearly not been the answer either.
Barb
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