I am convinced that the cost of education goes up and the quality goes down when you differentiate the curriculum so that the curriculum is college-bound for a minority of the students, and not-college bound for a majority of students. And the earlier you begin to differentiate the curriculum along those lines, the more the cost of education goes up and the quality goes down for most students.
I think the direction that the public school system was moving from the late 1960's to the early 1980's was a real threat to the class and caste system in the US. The schools were closing the gap, and that's not good for industries that thrive on cheap labor. From the perspective of employers there is such a thing as educating students too well, especially in school districts with a large black and multiracial underclass population. Too much education will spoil them for menial, low-wage work. -Doug Mann http://educationright.tripod.com 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
