Dan Triplett On (15 Nov 96) was overheard to say to Matt Smith
 DT> MATT SMITH spoke of Re: U.S. Education to DAN TRIPLETT on 11-13-96
 DT> MS>True.  But that only shows that public-school conditions in those
 DT> MS>states  is unrepresentative of that faced by the average kid in
 DT> MS>America!
 DT> MS>DT> MS>    All three are almost all-white, with very few English-
 DT> MS>DT> MS>as-a-second-language kids.
 DT> MS>DT> MS>    These states have disproportionately very few "hard to
 DT> MS>DT> educate"
 DT> MS>DT> MS>kids  compared to the rest of America.
 DT> MS>DT> MS>    And you call this study "research"?
 DT> MS>DT> years.  Have you ever visited Minneapolis or St. Paul?
 DT> MS>
 DT> MS> I've seen Duluth.  But even it is a hell of a lot different from
 DT> MS>Pittsburgh.
 DT> Minneapolis and Pittsburgh may have some similarities though..
 Hi Dan..
 Just a quick question....why do you bother to correspond with MS??
 He hasn't had a clue or a single relevant thing to say since he
 started haunting this conference.  He is extremely opinionated (more
 than I), extremely ill informed, doesn't seem to have ever had an
 original thought in his life and isn't even remotely associated with
 education.
 Oh and for what it's worth.. the upper midwest, particularly
 Minnesota, has a high number of immigrants from SE Asia, the former
 Soviet Union and a number of Balkan countries...all those children of
 course speak flawless English when they arrive.  Those schools are
 doing something very right...
... That's just my opinion... and I could be wrong.
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