Posted on 01/28/2005 6:44:02 AM PST by Pikamax
They already do this. Take it from a former teacher.
Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!
The adminstrators also probably didn't like the facts that home schoolers out perform every year in this competition and others like it.
"The word is "doe"
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DING! Correct
I guess she is willing to give her administrators salary and work for the same as the lowest paid district employee so she won't be seen as better.
Idiots
Liberals... punish the kids, blame it on Bush and pose for the cameras.... I'd call these folks idiotic, but that would be an insult to idiots everywhere.
AppyPappy, I was scanning the responses to see if anyone had mentioned the domination of the competition by home schooled kids....... I'm sure they haven't won every year, but it seems they have won several - that was my very first thought when I read this article - the public schools didn't want to acknowledge that a parent could actually teach his own child to spell.
OMG, I can't believe I live in this state.
ping
Public schools ping
As my school district's champion speller (went to State three times), I am deeply saddened by this drivel.
Then there shouldn't be an public school administrators because if we can't ALL be in the administration then NO ONE should be in the administration.
The anti-competition thing is nothing new. Several years ago, I taught at Londonderry High in NH (the same school that recently outlawed the yearbook photo of the kid holding his skeet-shooting rifle). The administration stated in no uncertain terms that competition was not allowed in the classroom. Pretty stupid, considering the school offered a full slate of varsity sports, including football.
Soma ...
Ding! We have a winner!
OMG WTF STFU NOOB!
sorry...stupid article deserves a stupid response.
Could it be that too many home-schoolers have lately been the top finalists in too many districts. I would like to know the statistics.
It's entirely possible.
We never had anything like that in school. The best you could do, in high school, was to make the honor roll. While I was never competetive in athletics, some real honors for academics just might have been the impetus I needed to really excel.
Anyway, to the original article - this is starting to sound like something out of "Harrison Bergeron." Can't have anyone feeling like they're better or worse at anything than anyone else, can we?
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