This is one of the rare occasions where I agree with everything in a post
that Michael Atherton wrote. I think that the following 2 points should be
emphasized:
In a message dated 6/15/2003 5:05:21 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> Eli Kaplan wrote:
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> > Please do not
David Brauer wrote:
Based on what I know of SLCs, Jim Grathwol is right. A kid chooses a medical
magnet at Roosevelt - yes, a lot of the learning is applied through a
medical metaphor. But the kid is no more locked into a medical career than
anyone else.
It just means they learn concepts better t
badly run that parents,
students, and teachers are all miserable.
Rosalind Nelson
Bancroft neighborhood
Craig Miller wrote:
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> Subject: [Mpls] Career Pathways for 8th Graders in MPS
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> It is always interesting to see how parents perceive changes in the school
> district regarding
Eli Kaplan wrote:
> Please do not prejudge any program or MPS because you may not
> have all the facts about the situation. Statistics can be geared
> to show anything. Talk with the kids about their experiences.
Bad statistics can be geared to show anything, valid statistical
techniques c
Subject: [Mpls] Career Pathways for 8th Graders in MPS
It is always interesting to see how parents perceive changes in the school
district regarding learning styles and quote the "SLC" curriculum. Do you
all know Barton School and its reputation today. Barton is classified as an
o
It is always interesting to see how parents perceive changes in the school
district regarding learning styles and quote the "SLC" curriculum. Do you
all know Barton School and its reputation today. Barton is classified as an
open school and a merger between Lake Harriet Open School (Fulton Open)
At 07:23 PM 6/12/03 -0500, David Brauer wrote:
With that in mind, I'd like to invite list parents with kids IN SLCs to
comment on Julie Quist's charges that SLCs are too vocationally oriented
and career-tracking. (I'm especially interested to hear from parents with kids
not in an IB or Liberal Art
> David Brauer wrote:
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> > 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
In a message dated 6/12/2003 7:24:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> 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 ea
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
First, I share Julie Quist's concerns that education will be subsumed to the
workplace, and that liberal arts are in peril.
However, I think many of her specific charges are hyperbolic readings of an
intelligent program.
Before I get into some specifics, I made a rule long before my kids started
In a message dated 6/12/2003 9:09:24 AM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Quist) writes:
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> So what is the overall effect of the MPS career
> system? The Minneapolis SLC system results in an
> education in which our children will not be educated
> beyond their station in life.
Re: Career Pathways for 8th Graders in MPS
Dear Mr. Grathwol,
In your June 8th letter to Senator Higgins you state that
"no one [Mpls student] chooses a career pathway" and that
Mpls "does not force students to choose careers in 8th grade."
Your statements are simply not true. Th
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