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Our charter schools are zapping money from poorer schools so that is an issue. The positive is our well trained profession. Maybe you didn't read my post.
If they are zapping money because they are a better product, dumpt the poorer schools or replace them with a better model. But also allow private schools, vouchers, etc.
We largely do-but you can roll a poo around in glitter and it is what it is.
The outcomes wont make you happy-people do things differently. Life turns out differently.
Outskirts of LA, so it was all kinds of students.
Im not saying deny anyone opportunity-Im saying its its not being utilized, why not try another path that might be helpful?
They are not a better product.
Of course life turns out different for everyone. It's like a box of chocolates isn't it?
I just know that I would rather be picking candy out of the education box of chocolates, than picking poo out of your glitter box.
Apparently thats not the case. Do you teach your students that competition is a good thing?
Yeah I remember spending hours everyday studying calculus. Then somebody wants me to give them answers? Sorry.
That's what I am saying also. Instead of getting rid of a terrible public school system, we could just make it better by getting rid of the bad stuff you speak of.
Yes, that is the case. The charter schools in our state are not a better product than our public schools.
1985/86 I was at the top of my career, Expo 86 was in the works here and I was lead gun at my station, covering first an unexpected leadership campaign and then a six week election, I was on the road most of a year.
I miss being able to simply board an airplane or enter the US with a driver's license, I do not miss the play of the Canucks in that era. I do like the convenience of cell phones, but not the intrusion they have become. I would not give up the internet for anything in that era. I did like the fashions of that day over what I see here now, and back then women had grace and charm; they have become hard and often cynical, at least here.
I do not find the threat of terror to be much different than the threat of global nuclear warfare with a president making jokes about "we will bomb them at noon".
I would like to make today's money in that era.....and know now what I didn't know then about women. Had that been the case then I would not have been at top of my career.
The parents apparently disagree. Why do you think that is?
And do you teach your students about the benefits of competition?
Well I benefited-my mother was a teacher, and she had ways to get me into the better teachers classes.
What you describe is a concept I described to my mom years ago, but I used the term "educational triage".
Her, and several other teachers (many mine, as my mom is friends with them to this day) I ran the idea by essentially said some mix of its being not fair, bad for self esteem, or it didn't provide roll models for the less capable students. I asked how it was the better performing students job to do that-and never got a cogent answer.
Educating children isnt an insurmountable task, we've done it better before. Thomas Sowell says he received an excellent education in Harlem in the 40's and 50's. Yes, the home environment is a critical factor-but one schools can't control.
We need to change course, where we are headed isn't working.
What? You're kidding right? I'm not talking anecdotal evidence.
Both my parents were teachers.
For the moment assume I agree (I do), can you explain how to do that when unions oppose any substantive reforms? Here in CA all they do is ask for more money, in LA they spend 16K per student per year. At that price you could higher a private teacher to come teach your child at home one on one.
Utah spends near the bottom per student per year, and they always do well nationally.
Its not always a money problem, and its not always poor poor overworked teachers-but thats not what the unions say.
Once again, why do you think that is? Could it be that perhaps (maybe elsewhere?) some school options are doing better than others?
I remember spending hours drinking the night before the calculus test.
That was the semester I decided I needed to change my major.
I thought we were talking MA?
Please. One Direction is so much cooler than New Kids on the Block.
They offer scholarships to the brightest kids from poor backgrounds. What else do you expect them to do?
The scope of the thread was national, but even in MA Im sure not all districts perform as stellar as yours.
There is nothing wrong with teachers having a union. It allows us to have a voice at the educational table. The reason the business community does not want teachers to have a voice is because it is perceived as a threat, especially when it comes to school reform.
My profession is my self interest. Not sure your point.Its about the teachers own interests, not the publics. At least some prominent educators can admit it.
Its NOT about education in an of itself or helping children-its about self interest.
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