Richard Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I am cynical about the Bush-initiative; I think that they used this > chance to criticize public schools, in hopes that it would help > destroy them. In the eight years of the Clinton adminstration, did you witness a vast improvement in the quality of U.S. public education? Do you really believe the Bush crowd truly wants to "destroy" the public schools? Are you serious? The dumbing down phenomenon has done more to harm the public schools than anything. Parents place their kids in schools where the main goal is not a satisfied teachers' union, but rather one in which all children learn to their capacity. My own kids were products of public schools and universities, but had we doubted the level of education in our neighborhood schools, we would have moved them into private ones without hesitation. It is obvious you want to make this into a partisan political issue, but IMHO, it is vastly more complex than which party happens to control the White House. If we elect Kerry in November, do you think there will be a major turnaround in the nation's public schools? > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
