Posted on 05/14/2004 9:31:26 PM PDT by wagglebee
I requested the numbers for our local school system employment a few months ago - number of teachers, total number of employees.
I was a bit shocked to see how many administration, janitorial and maintenance people there were - and a lot of the work is contracted out so does not show up.
I read where 75 million people are involved some way in public education today -- school counsellors, pyschologists, social workers, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, janitorial staff, teachers, assistant principals, principals, test preparers, text book publishers, school police, etc., etc.
The San Diego City School District sent a letter to all principals Friday morning advising them not to allow their students to see the video.
It read:
"We believe that the content of the video is not age-appropriate for students in grades K-12. We suggest other means for students in the upper grades to discuss this world event in age-appropriate formats."
Since we all know that as soon as the kids find out that the "grownups" do not want them to see it, it then becomes most interesting to find.
About your wanting to know why an art student would be surfing the Internet in Art class. I have many students come to my lab from the Art\Animation class we have at the high school.
Mostly to look up pictures of a cartoon character or sports emblem that they want to draw and replicate for projects. A student last year produced an excellent 3 ft. x 2 ft. painting of a small picture of Minnie Mouse that she had printed off from my room.
Then we should have the cleanest, best maintained schools and the best educated kids in the world.
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