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Pastimes : THE SLIGHTLY MODERATED BOXING RING

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To: average joe who wrote (13189)5/18/2002 1:22:21 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (3) of 21057
 
There is virtually no connection between a proper education and money.
I have yet to see anyone produce evidence to contradict that. My wife was on a local committee that looked into that matter. The conclusion was that there was NO connection between funding and results.

Pouring more money into a failed system will serve only to perpetuate the status quo.
Actually it can be harmful. It helps bloat the bureaucracy that then gets in the way and overregulates.

More teachers, school uniforms, more computers or designer buildings will have no effect on the single most important factor in our schools: the content of the child’s education.
Amen.

They are typically required to take a plethora of courses in “classroom management,” “assessment,” “audio-visual technologies” and multicultural indoctrination — in everything but the subjects they are to teach.
Yes, everything but the subject they will teach.

" multicultural indoctrination" AKA diversity education

America’s ed schools are the intellectual slums of our universities and are breeding grounds for mediocrity. Not surprisingly, 59 percent of ed-school graduates seeking teachers’ licenses in Massachusetts recently flunked an elementary screening test in reading comprehension.
Not surprising.

To that end, I offer the following proposal to the American people: close down the education schools!
The effect on our school system would be immediate and genuinely revolutionary. We would have teachers who had actually majored in the subjects they were teaching.

YES!

Man, I'm glad to see you. I've got a liberal wolfpack after me.
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