-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: ... > As for me, I attended public schools throughout my education. They > > did d*mn well by me. I'll grant that I went to a high school that > > routinely ranks in the top of schools nationwide, and furthermore that > > I was lucky in that I was in the accelerated track, which tends to > > draw highly motivated teachers, but in any case, I don't feel I missed > > out by getting a public school education. I do wish everyone had > > access to the kinds of teachers I had in high school. > > I truly feel your experience is the exception. I know that of the 5 high > schools in the city I grew up 4 of them were a complete waste and I attended > the worst. The best advice I ever got was from my 10th grade English teacher. > She pulled me aside one day and ask "What are you still doing here? Tell > your parents about this program and get out." The program? The California > High School Proficiency Exam. What I would have wasted on 11th and 12th grade > was spent in college. so... because there are flaws in the system, scrap it alltogether? i personally live in europe and even though there are problems with the public education and some things get worse at the moment (some of it has to do with cutting the funding and tell schools and univercities to get private sponsorship), you tell me just because as i heard, and have read in the disussion here it does not work to well in the US, and seems to more or less in other countries...just scrap the whole system?
even though it might sound a bit sarcastic, but if you follow through that idea with other fields, why not scrap the whole goverment and laws and have everybody look for themselves. yes, you could say that not everybody is able to do that, but not every kid is able to get good private education...and it is not the kids fault that their parents cant afford it...so have the kids start their jobs with a big minus on their bank account so that they have to work for have of their live to pay it back (if they are lucky and don't loose their jobs for one way or another)? yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEVKgUhrtSwvbWj0kRAj8RAJ9r9F+liQINJSbfPNkNkgIczEG77wCfbmV/ moM1NjB6uG2JlAIBazhd9is= =ZMG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
