Re: The Apple II Mail Group-- edu

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Louis Cornelio wrote:
> 
> In article <393FCB13.5068740C@inetnebr.com>, Roy and/or Janet Miller
> <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Louis Cornelio wrote:
> >
> > >  at least if I were rich I
> > > could leave my bone-head school district....
> >
> > Things not going well at work Louis? How is that district more bone-headed
> > than others?
> 
> San Diego district, along with LA, has brought in lawyers and businessmen
> to run the schools.  Change is difficult, naturally, and there is mucg
> controversy and grief. It remains to be seen if it is worth it, but the
> skeptics abound. But actually, the district in SD was messed up before
> those guys arrived. :) I am just bitter because, instead of Spanish, I
> will be forced to teach bonehead English - a 3 hour block of it!!
> Naturally there is no curriculum, this is their totally new "solution" to
> the vast numbers of underperforming students.....


     Letting each teacher develop his/her own curriculum (given a few specific
behavorial objectives) seems like a good idea. Most teachers would prefer the
kind of freedom you seem to have.

     Still, bringing in "lawyers and businessmen" to run things is not likely to
save the situation. Public schools can not improve significantly because so much
of what they do is controlled by federal bureaucrats more interested in social
engineering than education.


Rubywand