Re: Whaddaya know? (long)

[Chris Despopoulos <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>]

Aha...  Let me weigh in (in a "way in" sort of way) on this.  Dick said:
*************
Again, my disgust is not with "the quality of candidates these
days"; it is with an educational system that gets suckered by snake oil
salesmen peddling (NOT pedaling!!!) their cockamamie pananceas to
educated but fundamentally stupid school administrators.
*************

Another answer I got at parent/teacher sessions at a Silocon Valley 
high-school - "5 classes, 30 kids each - 1500 pages to grade for each 
10-page writing assignment.  I have to deal with public-school problems 
(ESL, weapons, drugs, learning/emotional problems).  I need to keep 
teaching during the time you want me to mark up these 1500 pages, plus 
attend meetings, plus buy materials for class with my own money.  *When* 
do you propose I grade these papers, and why don't you vote to pay me a 
decent salary?"

No wonder it's so easy to sell snake-oil to the schools...  It looks 
like a miracle cure.  Likewise, the tax payers buy snake oil when they 
believe they can improve schools by cutting funding.  Looks like we're 
talking about a human-nature thing, here.

Back to work.

cud


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