On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:57:24 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"jim rozen" wrote in message
...
In article , Ed Huntress
says...

You're implicating the wrong group, Gunner. It's your appointed, state
board
of education (or its equivalent) that limits discipline, in conjunction
with
your state legislature. Teachers would love nothing more than to have a
freer hand.

This is what the 'big gummint' types do, they throw blame around
everywhere but where it should be. Blame the union, blame the
teachers, blame the kids, blame the parents.

But the real issue is that standards and protocols are set by
local goverment. If it's screwed up, they're the ones that
should fix it. They already have the control there.

I don't know what you mean. They have almost no control over standards or
means of discipline. That goes on at the state level, and now, with our
state's-rights conservative President, it appears to be migrating to the
federal level.

Make that "anti-conservative president." After all, states rights has
always been a conservative cause. President Bush, however, wants to
see a transfer of authority from the states to the Federal government.

And, after all, he is the president who has shown what can be done
with the kind of education you can get without discipline...

Al Moore