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To: Les H who wrote (119608)12/26/2000 6:25:36 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769667
 
<<Lowering class sizes and raising education spending per se just causes more inflation. >>

My district has gone nuts, spends $7,500+ per student. 11th highest tax rate in the nation on school funding. We have grade school teachers making $88k per year.

A friend's son is a junior in HS, math class is 18 students, a teacher and two assistants. 6 students per instructor. Math is basically teaching them how to use a calculator. Rote memory on pushing buttons, the think part is left out. My friend showed his son how to do square roots with a pencil and paper and was called in for being disruptive.



To: Les H who wrote (119608)12/27/2000 9:18:43 AM
From: jlallen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
I agree. Control of the classroom is key. When I went to school, the only thing worse than having a teacher discipline me was having a teacher tell my parents they had to discipline me. My father and mother made it perfectly clear that as a kid in our family my prime responsibility was to give my best effort in school and not to cause my teachers any problems, OR ELSE!!! Nowadays, they discipline a kid and the parent shows up with a lawyer.

JLA


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