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To: JohnM who wrote (148441)	10/30/2010 9:20:23 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544095

John I think I'd be more "ok" with things staying, if we agreed to admit public education is doing much more than it used to be doing, and if we, perhaps, called it something different- because words shape thought, and as you can see from certain people who talk about education today, they don't THINK about education having this expanded role. They talk about it as if it were doing the same thing it was doing in the 60's- and it's not. Now it's some sort of cafeteria, doing social service, and behavioral support (for the behaviorally disabled), child minding for the profoundly retarded, ESL, Gang intervention, drug counseling (and I could go on and on)- heck we have a new program for tobacco abatement at our school now. I'm not against schools doing this stuff, if society agrees to recognize us for the multiservice agent that we are- but if they won't, I am almost to the point where I say- shove this stuff back on the voters, make them deal with it (or the consequences of not doing anything about it.)