If you fund public schools like the third world then you will get results like the third world. Simple.
If you undermine the public system with "charter" schools, "vouchers" for private schools, and the like, then your results will be undermined. Simple If you pay teachers like they are unskilled laborers, then only people who would otherwise be unskilled laborers will be teachers. (Yes, of course, there will be a talented few who are "on a mission" to be teachers, but an impoverished system will beat them down and/or squeeze them out soon enough.) Simple. The strategy of the anti-public movement has been transparent for decades now: Do everything in your power to defund, dismantle, disable, and ultimately destroy every public institution you come across, then declare, to your "horror," that the public system has failed and that only a private system could possibly do the job. Then, once the private system is in place, squeeze it for every dime you can get out of it, for there will no longer be a public system left to which people can return. Of course, this would only work in a country where the population has been conditioned to regard anything that happens in other countries as being relevant. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== On 2012-05-17, at 10:38 AM, mjchael sylvester wrote: > 73% of Florida's 4th,6th,8th and 10th graders who took the State's FCAT exam > flunked the writing portion of the test.So they decided to lower the > standards for passing so more would be counted as passing.Some are calling > for the abolishment > > > > of the test.Considering the amount of texting those students do,I was > expecting a higher passing > rate. > > michael > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=17854 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-17854-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=17857 or send a blank email to leave-17857-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
