On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 09:11:02 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Excitable Boy" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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You ought to spend some time at board of ed. meetings, in towns where
the
right-wing element is particularly vociferous. The air smells like
burning
brimstone. g Around eight years ago I got an education in this when I
visited other towns' Bd of Ed meetings to make a report to my town's Bd
of
Ed. Mama mia. Some of those people are unbelievable. They want the
cheapest
education the state will let them get away with, and they'll tear the
throat
out of anybody who tries to stop them. g


Another small factor generally overlooked by the "education
is worse than ever, teachers are useless, blablabla" crowd -
one of the MAJOR problems with public education is the amount
of power local buffoons have over what is taught. Just think -
Gunner could run for the local school board and probably be
elected shiver.

Ah...I think he once was a member of his local school board. g

Ed Huntress

I was, which is what gave me the bad attitude I have towards public
education today.

Between propaganda masquerading as text books, and idiots masquerading
as unnameable teachers, and complete buffoons as administrators...I
found it was simply impossible to deal with them and never sat again.
I didn't run for the school board for some power trip, but to try to
make changes in the disintegrations of the school system. It was a
lost cause. The other board members for the most part were there
simply for the power, or to have a title after their name when they
answered the phone.

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas