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To: wintertime
#13: Eliminate the NEA.

#14: Privatize schools. Use performance-based contracts for those privatized schools with independent verification of performance standards.

#15: Allow and fully fund school choice.


They must've just forgotten the last three points of the plan!

6 posted on 12/27/2006 6:10:36 PM PST by markomalley (Vivat Iesus!)
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To: markomalley
#13: Eliminate the NEA.
#14: Privatize schools. Use performance-based contracts for those privatized schools with independent verification of performance standards.
#15: Allow and fully fund school choice.

Pardon me, but haven't you got that sequence wrong? Should be:
#1: Eliminate the NEA.
#2: Privatize schools. Use performance-based contracts for those privatized schools with independent verification of performance standards. [And that is "performance standards" not "politically-correct philosophy standards"]
#3: Allow and fully fund school choice.

48 posted on 12/27/2006 6:57:59 PM PST by Nevermore
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To: markomalley

You miss the crucial step:

#16 Break the state-granted monopoly on K-12 teaching granted to the products of "Colleges of Education", and let anyone with a B.A., B.S., (or for art teachers B.F.A.) with a 3.0 or higher GPA from an accredited college or university teach the subject their degree is in, with leave to fire incompetents at any time within their first two years, or at year's end thereafter. (Tenure only makes sense in institutions where research or other scholarship is a significant part of the faculty's job description, where it really is a necessary guard of freedom of inquiry.)


97 posted on 12/27/2006 8:02:52 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: markomalley
"#15: Allow and fully fund school choice"

Sorry, school choice is not allowed!

Choice can only be used to kill babies but if you make the wrong choice and give birth then you have relinquished your "right to chose" to government and unions in the form of the public school system. We have not been a free society for years. More free than many other countries I would agree but not as free as the Founding Fathers envisioned.

277 posted on 12/28/2006 12:09:01 PM PST by Wurlitzer (It is easy to spot a good lawyer. There is a tomb stone over their head. Not enough though.)
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