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2013-06-04 Government

Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Fighting education fanatics

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-06-04 11:47|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Talking to adults about problems in public schools is tough. They all went to public school, and they turned out just fine. The missing data point is that these are not the public schools you went to. These schools more closely resemble something out of Orwell -- a braindead, morally bankrupt and incompetant version of Orwell's future.

Posted by Javiger Platypus3846 2013-06-04 12:39|| 2013-06-04 12:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Subsidy always messes things up, nothing's more subsidised than kiddies.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-06-04 13:37|| 2013-06-04 13:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Duckbill,

You are right. There is also the problem that parents, if they care at all, are only familiar with the schools in their immediate area. I would guess that most schools are no where near this type of fanaticism.............yet.

My wife, a teacher, is very much on board with the 'burg view of things, BUT, she is very sensitive on this type of issue as a gross over-generalization as she thinks it unfairly casts aspersions on herself and her friends in the schools.

Lots of blinkers being worn on this one.

Posted by AlanC 2013-06-04 13:37|| 2013-06-04 13:37|| Front Page Top

#4 School boards are usually ineffectual offices used by wannabe pols-personalities putting their first toe into the water rather than seeking true responsibility which implies the possibility of failure. Rubber stamps for 'professional' school administrators.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-04 17:01|| 2013-06-04 17:01|| Front Page Top

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