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To: Lane3 who wrote (67692)	9/7/2004 11:33:36 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793897

<<<IMO, this education effort is mostly off target because it is addressing what is addressable by government rather than what is the real problem>>> IMO there is nothing wrong with our education system. Any kid has access to public schools that can take him to any job in America. Our public shools produce more Nobel Prize winning scientists than any other country - more than Japan and Germany combined. The problem is that not every kid wants to be a Nobel Prize winning scientist - many of them do not have sufficient talent to begin with. I don't have the talent or the desire. We shouldn't be setting up a school system as if every child can be a nuclear scientist. Our society needs cooks, brick layers, crafts people, people who cut hair, drive trucks and buses, auto mechanics, firemen, sanitation workers, and a lot of other jobs that do not need differntial equations. We don't need one set of standards. One educational model does not fit all. We are spending too much money trying to do the impossible and what is not needed. A lot of kids need to be left behind to do the things that will make them happier.