David Brauer wrote: > Before I get into some specifics, I made a rule long before > my kids started in the Minneapolis Public School system: only > listen to those with kids IN the school system. The rest of us > can more easily have our ideological axes to grind, but parents > with kids find that experience often tempers (or reverses) such > ideological biases.
Interesting perspective. One might think that knowledgeable people without kids in the MPLS might be more objective. It would seems that parents who have make the choice of enrolling their kids in the public schools would have an emotional commitment to that decision: who would want to believe that they haven't done the right by their children? I'm waiting to see the data from results of SLCs in Minneapolis. That is of course if they are actually recording data (or will be accurately reporting it, given that they didn't set up the control groups recommend by their own research director to evaluate the effects of small class sizes; which they've since abandon anyway). There are a number of reasons I will not put my kids in the MPS and they have more to do with statistics, probabilities, and personal experiences and that not much to do with my ideological axes (whatever the they might be). Michael Atherton Prospect Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ 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
