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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (21259)6/23/2000 11:44:00 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
My sister is a teacher so I hear about problems all the time. Most are with the administrative heirarchy and nearly all boil down
to lack of funds.

My wife is a teacher, so I hear about problems every day. Many are with the Administration and though equipment is burglarized regularly, it is quickly replaced. She finds herself unable to motivate people with "victim" mentalities, who otherwise lack nothing for success. Cheating is so rampant that students must wear ID badges when testing even for regular finals tests. Sometimes teachers help the students cheat, or encourage other teachers to do so, probably just their answer to social promotions being scrutinized more closely. My wife purchases what she feels necessary in her classes with her own money if it's important. You cannot "purchase" a new self-concept for these kids. What agrees with their self-concept is failure, inured by the social welfare system that treats them as children, possibly of a lesser god.

Home school probably works well for motivated kids and dedicated parents. I don't see it as a general solution.

I think the issue is obviously choice, not general solutions. My sister taught her kids at home and her husband was alcoholic and abusive. After that she enrolled them in a Lutheran school and worked at the school to help pay the tuition. You don't understand how desperate people are to have choice and vouchers are the only way for the lower income groups. 70% of the black and hispanic Californians want this and the overall percentage is in the 50's. The initiative is on the ballot and now the Governor is vowing to fight it. The hubris against these communities is amazing, but to quote the Governor, vouchers are "risky". Sounds familiar. Social promotion was "risky". Welfare was "risky" also. A generation of graduates with diplomas and no skills is "risky".
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