David Brauer writes: "The question you seem to anwser is that the schools are now designed for social engineering.My feeling is that schools are only for education which in the end is up to the parents to control not the government. The private schools do offer a better education which is what parents care about. The troubles are that most of us can not afford private schools for if we could I believe most parents of every race and class would send them there,(except perhaps those who believe in social engineering for their children.)"
I think there's some fallacious think that goes on when thinking about private schools. Everyone looks at what they think is the general level of quality in private schools (have yet to see any research quoted about all private schools). They judge that students do better. Then they take that great logical leap into the abyss: "If all students were in private schools, the overall level of achievement would rise". Never does it seem to occur to them that present student achievement in private schools is tied to present CONDITIONS in private schools. That could include a lot of different things such as the volume of psychological trauma those schools must overcome in its student population. The lack of socialization in the problem students that would transfer. The many unmet family needs of the at-risk population of students. The fact that most of the teachers would need to transfer with the students to keep classes at present size. That means, of course, that whatever incompetence now exists in public school staff would follow the students to the private schools. It is odd and ironic that the lack of thinking skills many of our student graduates seem to have is also present in the population of adults who want a quickie solution to our "failing schools". Jim Mork, Longfellow __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.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
