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To: gamesmistress who wrote (57034)	7/30/2004 9:11:52 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793843

The results are a direct refutation of the We Need More Spending chorus. I have said from day one that things had to get worse before they get better. The "we need more money" answer is now pretty well refuted. What is not public knowledge is "what is wrong?" But the fact that the progressive/constructive argument exists is slowly creeping into the public arena. I don't think we will ever go at the problem from an ideological viewpoint, but the pragmatic, "back to basics" describes it well enough to get the job done. The truth is that the Teacher's colleges are indoctrinating the wrong way to teach into our new teachers. When these teachers reach the classroom it takes years, if ever, for them to throw off the incorrect teaching methods they have been taught. The good ones figure out what really works and do it. The bad ones don't. The school administration is filled from top to bottom with people who believe in the wrong way to teach. It is as if we had sent communists out to teach people how to run a business. The businesses would have had a huge failure rate until the business people got rid of the wrong methods.