Unfortunately, the "fixing of schools" has been far from lip service. "No Child Left Behind", a federal initiative to improve the quality of public education, has not only been implemented at great cost and fanfare, but it's largely created (perhaps "worsened") the "teach to the test" problem you described.
If you want to fix public schools, you need to fix the problem, not the symptoms. In my book, the problem is the vast number of parents that don't seem to care what quality of education their children get. In the short term, I agree with your "charter schools are doubly doomed" comment. They are an "alternative" to a state-provided poor education which, while an "alternative", are not necessarily an improvement. Personally, I'd rather see a voucher system. If people can vote with their tax dollars, someone (public or private) will begin to step up to provide a better value proposition for the tax payer that's interested in a better education for their kids. Shane O. P.S. Put LINUX in our school computer labs!!! The price is right & the technology is sound/appropriate. (wanted to make the post relevant for the list...) > When somethings broken you tend to want to fix it -- except for schools - > fixing them is just lip service. > -- Shane O. ======== Shane O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================== -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
