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To: durasell
Sometimes the foundation of a house is so cracked the house is condemned.Not everything can be fixed.

Most people who have been students in the public schools dislike them. Yet nothing ever changes.

The reason nothing will ever change in the public schools is because some powerful people want the masses to stay ignorant and powerless.
503 posted on 02/01/2007 11:24:12 AM PST by perseid 67 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.)
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To: perseid 67

Not everything can be fixed.





The traditional American attitude is the exact opposite. I still tend to believe it.


504 posted on 02/01/2007 11:27:02 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: perseid 67

Most people who have been students in the public schools dislike them. Yet nothing ever changes.





If you got to some of the parents with kids in public schools in high end communities, Scarsdale,NY, Greenwich, CT --you will find the parents quite happy with the public schools -- though keeping an eagle eye on the SAT scores, etc. and screaming like stuck pigs the instant they drop a singe point in the average.

If you go to the parents in NYC's specialized high schools, you'll find the same thing.

Education is expensive -- quality in almost anything always entails spending more money and knowing how to quantify results. The much despised teachers' unions mitgated this for awhile, but they're becoming less effective. Now it's becoming a "get what you pay for world" in education. So the rich school districts will continue to poach the best teachers from the poor school districts -- luring them in with higher salaries. NYC, for instance, regularly poaches teachers from Texas, etc. with higher salaries while wealthy suburbs in Westchester and Long Island poach teachers from NYC.


507 posted on 02/01/2007 12:00:51 PM PST by durasell (!)
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