In a message dated 3/20/03 8:47:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Why not just go ahead and complete the process that has been taking place > for the past 20 years. Make the schools nothing but a training ground to > mold students into corporate commodities Keith says; I wish that were closer to the truth, and the actual outcome. I will presume you are on point, this time, and thus referring to Mpls. Public Schools. The last twenty years, and the ten before them, have shown: Too high a percentage of the kids cannot read, write, or solve a math problem at appropriate skill levels. I will not blame a teacher; or teachers. I will blame the Kumbayah Clique that in the past (remember Green?) ripped down our public school stock, and stopped having a curriculum of education and student success, by measurable standards. If this institution does "mold students into corporate commodities", it is into the shape of the burgers they will be flippin'. Nothin' corporate about, "Would you like fries with that happy deal?" I thank a teacher I can write this, Keith Reitman NearNorth TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
