I appreciate the postings Mike Atherton has submitted. Please keep them coming, at least until the level where we start needing to pay you. After all this is the internet and everything must be free! It appears to me that Mike has run into two pillars of political correctness. You must support "the children", and you must support "public" schools. Since the "public" school system tells us they want what is best for "the children", and since we want what is best for "the children", we must unfailingly support everything that a "public" school system says. In conjunction with that, we must not attack public schools for failings that are almost always due to external factors that public schools districts are not able to cope with. Even with additional help public schools cannot be expected to accomplish as much as private schools because the private schools have "other" advantages. If you thing back to the recent thread on education there were a number of posts that began "I'm probably nuts to wade into this," or "I'm hesitant to...," or I don't have kids but," or "the school subject is always a tough one." Here is a topic near and dear to many people and they are afraid to take a stand in case they are perceived to be politically incorrect. I think people are not only afraid to be un-pc, but with their children involved they so strongly want to believe they have made the right choice for their kid, that they can't allow themselves to accept any criticism of their schools. To do so would incriminate them in their choice. The beauty of this is the consumers have bought into the propaganda of the schools and their support is unwavering even with strong signals that the system is not working. Please understand that both of my kids are MPS kids and I know there are "parts" of the system that work. That doesn't excuse the other failures. Bob Gustafson SW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
