> -----Original Message----- > From: David Handy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:10 PM > To: Laura Creighton > Cc: Arthur; edu-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL
> Unfortunately, the public schools then become the > battleground of ideologies, in the same way that government-run media > becomes the first target of any would-be revolutionary junta. Politics > rules the schools, and education suffers. I understand the point, but think that stating it the way that you do implies the possibility of a better alternative. I myself am a reformed school voucher, get the government off our back kind of guy. Personal frame of reference - My youngest first cousin - the product of the identical public schools as myself - ends up in an Iowa city because of her husband's university affiliation, spends 2 years as a desperately out-of-place New Yorker and 2 years later wins the election as head of the city's School Board, with no particular agenda beyond - let's make things work the best we can within the limits of available resources and accommodating diverse sensibilities on topics of sensitivity as best we can. Its legit. And I guess that if Microsoft wants to undertake a campaign to suggest that their business agenda and the realization of my son's potential are cosmically related, I should, since I don't particularly admire the organization welcome their right to spend good money to make themselves LOOK RIDICULOUS. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
