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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (68319)	9/9/2004 1:07:01 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793917

Putting a hodge podge set of standards on top of hodge podge hodge podges will make it look like we are doing something - when in reality it is only more hodge podge. I agree with that, Mary. Look, people such as you and I don't agree on what schools should be trying to accomplish let alone how to achieve it. There are so many opinions and schools, being political institutions plus subject to court suits, try to please everyone. The overhead and complexity are enormous and inevitable. I've been fussing about incompetent parents. Should schools be teaching kids to be good parents? If the schools don't then who will? If they do, then there would have to be some agreement on what the curriculum would be. What a mess. Which reminds me, I wonder what happened to Bush's couples training program... I don't have the answer. What I think is we are getting deeper and deeper into ineffectiveness. I don't have the answer, either, but I don't think nationalizing standards is a step in the right direction. It may seem so but I don't think it is. I think we have to decentralize more, not centralize. If the feds want to help, let them get the schools some relief from the burden already on them and some relief from the courts.

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