vanity- help with "Crummy public schools are producing a crummy workforce" stmt for class paper

SteveH

[SteveH]

"Crummy public schools are producing a crummy workforce and that is really killing us in the global work place."

I'm trying to write a reasoned response to the above as if it were (another) letter to the editor of a newspaper, for a class assignment (social, multicultural based foundations of ed).

I am soliciting any notions (on either end) for ideas, statistics, pointers, websites, etc.

Please help. Send freepmail, respond here, whatever, but soon because this is like a final due in a couple of days. Thanks!

yours in jeffersonian liberty,

-SteveH

[annyokie]

Steve, what is "crummy" about your public school?

[cyborg]

Crummy early and middle education is a recipe for disaster. You learn the foundations of math and language arts in these years. If schools sucks (bad teachers,etc.) you can be screwed. This means remedial education, tutoring,etc.

[annyokie]

Other than your lazy work ethic and the terrible construction of the problem sentence, I haven't enough information to help you (read: do your assignment for you).

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I don't understand. Are you supporting this statement?

[cyborg]

I sincerely hope he's being sarcastic or 'tongue in cheek'.

[annyokie]

No kidding. I'd have my boy's hide for constructing a sentence such as that on a public forum.

[Jackson Brown]

Start with Google do your own research. Doing it your self is the way to get a better education and have a better chance of being part of a better work force.

[cyborg]

He has never seen the responses to such posts before...lol

[CindyDawg]

Your assignment is due in a couple of days? Oh well,I can't lecture you because I stayed up all night once to write an essay that I had known about for six weeks. I made an A (without any Free Republicans help :')

How old are you and can you give us more details about your project?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Send freepmail, respond here, whatever, but soon because this is like a final due in a couple of days.

This is "like a final due in a couple days"?

:sigh: Well, you might start off with the literacy rate among those who graduate from public schools. There are very few jobs that do not involve pushing a broom for some one who cannot read. Even most sanitation jobs require basic literacy.

[MJY1288]

The reason why our public schools are producing a "Crummy Workforce" is because they no longer reward excellence. They believe that by rewarding one person as the best in class is damaging to the self esteem of everyone else.

This type of approach in the classroom results in mediocrity at best and a sense of feeling that why try to be the best in your class, when a passing grade is judged no different than a perfect score

[cyborg]

New York State lowered the passing grade for regents to something like 55. Soon it will be zero.

[SteveH]

please leave my kid's public school out of it ;-)

that isn't my sentence. it's my professor's. ;-)

she is pro-multicultural (duhhh ;-).

i have lost all respect for the prof, the ed school, and (almost) the university. i'm on the ropes here :-(

hey i was just asking for inspiration, not for anyone to write my paper for me...

we are the world, we are the children...

it's a small world after all...

help me, i'm melting...

:-) :-) :-)

[SteveH]

John Taylor Gatto is one of my heroes...

:-)

[cyborg]

Just in case people were wondering...

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

[SteveH]

CindyDawg, my first paper for a 4 page assignment was 5 pages, without any freeper help.

it was returned to me covered with "WHY?s" in red without a grade.

my second attempt was 18 pages and answered every question.

it was returned to me covered with "WHY?s" in red, with a D.

my third attempt was 47 pages...

my second paper of 5 pages for a 3 page assignment was returned, covered with "WHYs", D+ ...

I am being graded on "conciseness" as well as reasoning...

are you getting my drift????

please permit me to spell it out for anyone who still is lost... i have a 'professor from h*ll' ... i entered and lost all hope ...

:-) :-) :-)

[SteveH]

Thanks......

Please add Jaime Escalante......

Two names I never hear in the "Ed School" ...

it is the veritable heart of darkness ...

:-) :-) :-)

[cyborg]

http://www.paccd.cc.ca.us/75th/alumni/escalante/escalante.html

who had endorsed Ah-nold as well

[cyborg]

AND THE TEACHER TO END ALL TEACHERS... who made the phrase educrats popular...

http://www.joeclarkspeaker.com/biography.htm