Melissa Dispaltro wrote:

>> > Nope, nothing that even remotely resembled jography, or anything
> > like that, we had what was losely termed as 'open plan' learning, no
> > set classes, unstructred learning..  ie  shambles
> 
> Oh, yes--sounds like a lot of what's going on here.  All kinds of
> experimentation, and it's still apparently not clear to the Powers
> that Be (or a lot of teachers, I'm sorry to say) that if you will
> teach the children basic skills, they will leave school as skilled
> individuals. 


its just as well that i enjoyed reading, and basically taught myself 
a lot of things.


Doy. And then, of course, Dubya wants to cut funding to
> "non-performing" schools--in other words, the schools whose children
> come to them with lower skills (usually low-income schools that don't
> have much in the way of resources to *help* the kids) end up losing


They wanted to do that here as well, grading the schools so that 
parents could send their kids to the schools that performed better, 
more students,more funding, less students, less funding.


> I'm all for throwing out the experimentation and getting back to the
> good ol' days of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. Oh, and government
> *support* of schools. That would be nice.

I hear you, I hear you.. oh boy do I hear you!!

 
teddy

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