Some questions...
1.
Audrey Johnson wrote:
<<If this provision to "sunset" comp ed prevails, it is likely that it would
be challenged in the courts...>>
Not to put too fine a point on it, but is this a threat? If so, how much will
Hogan and Hartson get for it? What's the best case outcome? Would the board
of education file the suit without community discussion?
2.
David challenged Mike Atherton's reference to Dorothy Shipps. Some quick
info. Her background is an educational historian, not a data-driven policy
researcher. A basic assumption of her work is that over the last century,
top-down reforms almost never filter down to classroom practice. (One
exception being that testing mania is turning more teachers to either
drill-and-practice or temp employment agencies.) Those who offer quick
curriculum fixes might at least consider Shipp's assumption.
4.
Reading the posts I am struck by the differences among those who see raising
kids as a responsibility assigned to schools and for which our major respons
ibility is to make sure we get the most bang for the property-tax (stay
tuned) buck and those who see it as a more general responsibility of parents
and all adults. When those assumptions are not made clear, arguments get
downright confusing.
Dennis Schapiro
Linden Hills
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