--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I agree in general with what you're > saying here, I think you're painting with too broad > a brush when you damn "society" for the reactions > that Diane was describing. The educrats want to > protect their turf, plain and simple, without any > interference from meddling parents who point out > awkward facts about the public schools and try to > get them fixed.
Excuse me for laughing out loud for I am sure that the above statement was meant as a joke, right? The school system does not have any "turf". We, the taxpayers (i.e. parents, etc.) are paying through the nose for the school buildings, teachers salaries, education material, the works. What belongs to them is their skills and the integrity in which they choose to walk into our school buildings, under contract to produce excellent educational results, and teach our children. > What we have now is less the "hard racism" of > the 1950s and 60s based purely on race hatred than > what President Bush has called "the soft bigotry of > low expectations". It's that sort of bigotry that > casts a 4% increase in test scores as a dramatic > increase, and sees a 52% graduation rate as less > than a disaster. "Soft bigotry." Is that supposed to soften the blow? Thank you for enlightening us as to the 21st Century catch phrase. Excuse me if I am not impressed with the update. A rose is a rose is a rose... Pamela Taylor (Who no matter how many times people try to educate her to the contrary, has still not learned how to talk Minnesotan Nice, weighing in from Tampa) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
