Yesterday's Star Tribune had an interesting article about the school superintendent, saying her manner was brash, unnerving, and (apparently) too abrupt to fit in well with teachers in the schools.
Peebles brushed the criticism off by saying her manner is an "East Coasty" thing. I'm thinking that one major goal of the public schools is to help kids learn to navigate in the mainstream, which is still where the money is. To the best of my understanding, you achieve that most easily by *fitting in*, convincing your prospective employer that you are going to cooperate and learn the job and so on. (So maybe I've been wrong all these years about getting employed and so on?) If I'm right about that, though, wouldn't it be a good idea if Supt. Peebles changed her tactics a little, decided to lead by example and learned to be a little more midwestern? www.startribune.com/stories/1592/5169227.html Or, is the idea to teach high schoolers to be brash, pushy, and to tell others to just deal with it? Yeah, that's a great way to get a job, get approved for an apartment and so on. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I don't care whom she offends if she can lead the kids to put good acts together. I did find myself very uncomfortable, often, when I had a daughter at South High. There were just too many kids there who didn't act like someone I'd want to hire. Emilie Quast SE Como REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
