-=> Quoting Bob Klahn to Andrew Cummins <=-
 BK> Since when do engineers take a dozen calculus related courses? Maybe
 BK> 3 or 4.
Many engineers take 3 or 4 pure calculus classes, let alone
calculus-related classes.
 BK> How about all math teachers have a degree in math as well as teaching
 BK> certification? How about education courses are a minor?
How about we do away with all state/federal requirements
and let each school decide on the qualifications they
want in a teacher?  Isn't it amazing how you can get good
food in restaurants without the gubberment mandating
cooking education for the cooks?  Although, I think you
set a reasonable level for any school to adopt.
 
 BK> Nope, no exceptions.
I never met a Liberal who didn't believe in exceptions.  There's
always some social cause a Liberal wants to promote.
 BK> Pretty soon you'll have so many highly qualified black graduates from
 BK> teaching colleges the white schools will be filled with black
 BK> teachers.
I don't have a problem with that.
 BK> You know, I like that idea, I can't think of a better way to break
 BK> down the walls of segregation and prejudice.
One necessity in ending segregation and prejudice is to
stop promoting it with the "reverse" practice.
 
 >BK>> Finally, require, without exception, that all teaching jobs be filled
 >BK>> with fully qualified people regardless of cost.
 >
 >AC> Yeah, let's have the best teachers even if it causes our
 >AC> economy to collapse and millions to die due to lack of
 >AC> medical care and food.
 BK> Do you mean to say teaching is such a hard profession that fully
 BK> qualified people won't take the jobs at anything less than ruinously
 BK> expensive salaries?
Good reply.  But, I think the quality of teachers is actually
a minority portion of the problems with education.
 BK> Besides, it seems the "conservatives" really don't object to throwing
 BK> money at problems, it's just a choice of which problems.
Real conservatives object to throwing money at problems.
 BK> They throw
 BK> money at the military, even when the projects they are throwing money
 BK> at are things the military doesn't even want.
I never understood why so-called conservatives (e.g. Mike
Regan, the president's son) want a military far larger than
anything needed for the defense of this nation.
 BK> I just read congress
 BK> has authorized $250 million to promote abstinence. Guess they can
 BK> throw money at that.
Probably the choice was abstinence or condoms, not abstinence
or nothing.
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