To: wagglebee
The answer is school vouchers, so students who want to learn can go to non-government schools where they will be taught by non-union teachers who want to teach.
Absolutely. The answer is taking power away from the UFT educrats who have turned the schools into a cesspool and inviting competition --- make competing small schools within schools run by different non-UFT, non-NEA TEACHERS, not tenured educrats.
It always amazes me how the city's Catholic schools, which pay its teachers much less than the public schools, do much better than the educrat-run publik skools.
To: conservative in nyc
I used to do personnel work, and it was sad to see the occasional Black kid (it was always a Black, never a White) who turned in a barely-legible, scrawled job application that looked like a second grader wrote it:big uneven print that went up and down, not in a straight line.
It made me feel angry at our public school system. The poor kids wanted to work, but how could they get hired if they can't write?
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06/18/2004 9:29:05 PM PDT by
Ciexyz
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