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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Rambi who wrote (3349)10/21/2000 12:40:14 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
To take care of the children, whose parents give them no support at home, we need remediation services. Those services will be expensive and no voucher system will cure that, and no private school would want those children. What the real "problem" children need is a low student to teacher ration - 10 to 1 at the most, preferably with an aide- as they have in special education. These children probably also need counseling, because neglected children often have emotional problems that they take to school and try to work out in the school system.

The benefits to reaching and targeting those problem children are 1. they will be out of the regular classroom so the other children can learn at an appropriate level 2. these children won't become drop outs and criminals because education has failed them and 3. they won't perpetuate the cycle by having children just like themselves.

In California we now have rigorous standards that all children must meet in order to be promoted from grade to grade. I think such standards are useful- but there MUST be remediation services available for the children who will be identified as failing these standards- or else why test them, if you aren't going to help them? I don't see how the voucher system will help the children who most need help- and those children are the geatest danger to society.
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