On 27 Mar 2003 05:04:50 GMT, (Anonymo421) wrote:


School properly taught would be a delight to children, not a chore.

But of course we don't even have pennies to spend on our children's
schools; gotta spent those billions to kill other people's children.


Hah! We spend more on education than we ever have--the problem is that the NEA
is a corrupt organization more concerned with political correctness and
protection of incompetant teachers than with meeting the ostensible end of a
public education system. Things would improve if we spent more time on
rigorous academic exercise and less on failed social engineering (this is why
so many foreign kids who have far less funding put into their educational
systems come over here and run circles around so many of our students).

Part of what you said is true, though I don't necessarily buy into
your blanket condemnation of teachers' unions. You want to go back to
the days when teachers could be fired if they refused to have sex with
the principal, or if their religion or politics didn't meet certain
criteria? Unions arose to serve a need. Alas, like all human
endeavours, some can fall victim to warped objectives. The answer is
not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

The "social engineering" accusation is accurate, however. Pushing
kids through school via "social promotion" to avoid wounding their
tender egos has resulted in a literacy/numeracy *disaster*!

However, the greatest danger threatening our educational system at
present is the Administrations' drive to replace secular public
education with religious schools, under guise of the "voucher" program
-- a scam of unparalleled viciousness and danger that has roots going
back before even the first Bush administration.

We need to sleep with our eyes open, and lean on the cowardly, corrupt
Congress, lest the Bill of Rights be trashed --prime objective of our
theocrat-in-chief, Attorney General, the Ayatollah Ashcroft.




--
Polar