On Jun 14, 5:44 am, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote: > DO you agree with closing more schools?
The choice is not between closing schools or not. It is eminently possible to improve the schools AND save money. The prescription: 1) enforce basic student discipline, which has eroded to atrocious depths. 2) establish, monitor, and enforce basic teaching standards. Many teachers are abysmally incompetent. 3) require at least a minimal degree of parental involvement where feasible. Many parents are apathetic. They should be required to pay extra for school services unless they demonstrate some basic effort to help their children. There are other needed steps, but these are a good start. The obstacle is the teacher unions, which wield enormous political power. Their only answer to every issue in the schools is to raise taxes and increase spending, despite the fact that many years of this policy have continued to produce illiterate, innumerate students. The unions vociferously resist any attempt at holding teachers accountable. Plus, when taxes ARE raised, the bulk of the money goes into the pockets of school administrators and union officials, with a bone tossed to the teachers, and almost none of it to improving education for the students. > Do you want hoards of the poorest children from the most deprived > neighbourhoods knocking on your door during daylight hours when you > are at work? Melodrama. > Would you rather the roads fixed themselves; Now there's an idea! Nano tech! > that we go back to privatised fire-service? You have a talent for hyperbole. > > ----------------------------------------- > > On May 18, 12:57 pm, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Video--- Example of How Politicians Should Act > > > > > Governor of New Jersey was accused by a reporter of being > > > > confrontational. > > > > Governor replies as follows: > > > > >http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/video-chris-christie-destroys-r... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
