> 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.
Michael writes: > 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 think such parents are rare, perhaps even fantasies. For most of us, how well our kids learning is far more powerful than ratifying some initial choice. Believe me, if a school system wasn't educating my kid, I'd be pretty loud about it. Bottom line: I still think experience is better than statistics and probability that (as one with a stat degree) can be manipulated, too. I'd argue that in the current national debate, stats are too prominent, compared to actual parent/child experience. So ... I'd still like to hear from parents with kids in Minneapolis Public Schools' Small Learning Communities. Are they too vo-tech? Do they feel like they cement your kid in a career? David Brauer Kin Field 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
