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To: LindyBill who wrote (152107)	12/21/2005 2:43:52 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793931

On Monday, Weaver balked at focusing on students’ standardized test results. “In many instances they want us all to focus on outputs,” he said. “An output is nothing more than a test score, and as long as they get us focused on a test score, then they cause the public and many legislators not to deal with the inputs.” “Inputs,” he said include not only class size and adequate funding but qualified and certified teachers, safe and orderly schools and state-of-the-art technology. Judging from this complaint, Weaver is a typical administrative bureaucrat in his knee-jerk defense of the educational establishment. Among other things, he failed to mention teachers who insist on high standards, demonstrate high expectations of their students, and have the backing of the admininstration when they flunk half of their class; parents who value education, instill the right attitudes at home, become involved in the process, and insist that their kids behave, shape up, and study; course material that emphasizes things of fundamental importance such as English (every single year in school), science, math, American history, and economics (hardly taught in school at all); and most importantly, an atmosphere which emphasizes individualism, achievement, and assuming personal responsibility for ones actions. Where these things have been tried, such as in many parochial schools, and in a few isolated examples in the heart of low economic neighborhood areas in New York and Chicago, the results have been nothing short of spectacular. And the "money" input was in many cases below average. And btw I don't think these things are "inputs": they are the essential heart of the process itself.