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To: Kirk © who wrote (46687)	5/13/2001 4:52:30 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

BTW, we had 33 kids in my 2nd grade class and we got a good education. NOW we only allow 20 kids in a class (MUCH more expensive) and the kids are not scoring as well on tests I am told.... Perhaps kids were better behaved due to more parental concern so a teacher could teach a larger class? BTW, my mom worked and many others did in the 1960's... so that excuse isn't valid. I still like to blame the lousy parents that find it easier to blame the schools and throw other people's tax dollars at solving the problem of rotten parenting. Kirk you are going to really get me started! My mother taught for 37 years and my sister just retired after 30 years. Next to parents who just don't care, their major complaint is all the Federally imposed paperwork required these days. Layer on top of that the multiple layers of administrators that seem to spend their time dreaming up new theories to try and and you get a school system that is one of the most expensive per pupil in the world and one of the least effective in measurable student achievement. Of course what they learn is no longer important, it's how good they feel about themselves! More new age "feel good" stuff that is killing student achievement. Thank God that many immigrants who want to come here already have a good education before they arrive on these shores. My sister, who truly loved teaching reading to first-graders, has often said "If they would just let us teach we could do it." Instead, the Democratic party (aka the National Education Association) continues to play their social experiments with our children's education...what a tragic joke!