Eli: Do you actually have problems with non-achieving children? Craig seems to be convinced you do. The other question I have is, do the graduates of Rogers schools win a lot of Merit Scholarships and such? I mean, all the focus is on the failing students in Minneapolis AS IF students elsewhere never fail at all. Nor do the many high-achieving students get any recognition. And I know they are there in the city schools.
By the way, I was in honor society, and my parents never did any of the things Craig offers as "solutions". What my parents did was live the lives of literate, educated parents. They showed in the way they lived their own lives that education mattered. I picked up on that myself without a lot of heavy-handed "input". My father played operas for his enjoyment, and from that I learned that serious music was entertainment. Do all our consumption-crazy parents today set the bar high for their children? I wonder. It does no good at all to crab at the school administration if you entertain yourself at home with "Bachelor" and WWF. Kids will pick on the genuine message every time. ----------------------- Who is the actual owner of Target Center. If we are, then the fact that we don't pay taxes to ourselves only makes sense. And getting a ticket for our trouble doesn't. ===== Jim Mork Cooper-Longfellow-Minneapolis (L'Etoile du Nord) --------------- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." … Benito Mussolini ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.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
