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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kash johal who wrote (125382)	10/5/2000 2:53:15 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583713

Kash, I don't live in Sunnyvale. I drop my kids off for school there on my way to work. If u lived in palo alto, u might be very proud of that public school system. In fact the high school is considered on of the very very best in the US. Like I said, I take my kids to school in Sunnyvale. ;^) I went to one of the top rated high schools in the US (Los Alamos, N.M.) and it stunk compared to the grammar school I attended in England. Scumbria

To: kash johal who wrote (125382)	10/5/2000 6:27:45 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583713

Kash Re....The point is that vouchers are not the solution. They are simply a means for middle class parents to seperate their kids from the unwashed masses.<< Fine, I will go with that. Any time I can get my kids out of a gang, drug and weapon infested school, I will. Do you really think that your kids could become brilliant students in such an environment. You say the rich public schools don't have any problems. Well ours didn't either until some judge decided we needed to bus in some gangs and drugs in the name of racial harmony; another of your wildly successful liberal bleeding heart ideas. Then another bunch of touch-feely bleeding heart liberals decided that it would be too mean to actually flunk someone, it might irreparably harm the childs physcosis for life. And then a bunch of lawyers showed up and demanded that teachers not discipline the children anymore. Then a bunch of liberal bleeding hearts decided that it would hurt the slow children feelings if the rest of the class went too fast for them, so the teachers were told to slow down the entire class. And people wonder why our schools are falling behind. Colleges don't have to put up with that, and they do a great job. High schools do. Because of all of the politics involved, the high schools will never change until they are forced too. That is the main reason why I want vouchers. Too force change in our high schools in order to save them, not destroy them. We need to get back to the basics. Perhaps harry solution of kicking out all the bad kids that have bad grades and have poor discipline has merit. As a bleeding heart liberal - who sends one of my kids to private school - i find that solution unacceptable.<< As a bleeding heart liberal who can afford to send one of your kids to a private school, of course you find that unacceptable; that what bleeding hearts do, find everything unacceptable. But if your were in a poor public school district, as a parent what would you do ; grin and bear it or try to do something about it.