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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (194365)	1/27/2007 9:35:07 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 793968

My parents both went from business into teaching. My Dad went from working in a factory, he had papers for several trades like electrician, welder, and tool and die maker. So he gets into the system, and the first course he was supposed to teach was interior decorating. The next year he was supposed to teach French. Eventually, after a lot of strain and fuss, his statement that he didn't speak French got him a transfer to a vocational school. Lots of time the problem is not with the teachers, it is with the politicians running the school boards, who have no clue.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (194365)	1/27/2007 10:32:47 AM
From: Suma	Respond to of 793968

I know that a lot of education ruins the natural talents in kids because their originality is challenged as "not the right way to do it." We could most likely look at a lot of issues being too many in a class, too many discipline problems to occupy the teacher's time... as students are forced to come to school. I always thought that it should be a privilege... If it was put in the context of being as great as being a pro athlete ( maybe we should pay them to come) the attitudes might change. When we had disinterested or disenfranchised students who were potential drop outs I commenced a program that started at 7 am. We met and had breakfast together and then they got the best teachers in the school for 4 hours. At noon they left to take a job and that was supervised too. They gleaned sufficient credits to graduate but no frosting's... Just those required courses... I learned from them that most of the disinterest came from troubled homes. How could a student learn when the night before Dad beat up mother or was drunk and on and on...