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Politics : THE STARR REPORT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shadow who wrote (485)	9/12/1998 9:46:00 PM
From: Wildstar	Respond to of 1533

Totally agree. Just about everything the govt tries to manage fails.

To: Shadow who wrote (485)	9/13/1998 3:29:00 AM
From: robert read	Respond to of 1533

it is not just the public school's fault. It is the system. To start with they pass students to the next grade level even if they fail the current grade. Schools have to follow the law and pass a bunch of problem students to the next grade level even if they have all F's. Then in the next grade level you get half of the class that is not prepared and fail again, this goes on and on until they finish high school. On top of that every class has 30 to 40 students. One way to fix public education is to stop promoting failing students to the next grade level, lower class size to 20 in all k-12 classrooms, set up a system where students who pass a class are independently tested to make sure they really learned their stuff. Only then can you in all honesty blame the schools. BTW private and public schools that succeed do so because they follow the above mentioned policies. But you know why I think the above policies might never come to pass? It is because the California system is set up to push students through the system because it might be a little expensive otherwise.