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“very worldy of you to know that sixyear”
Ditto, Condescend much?
Haha Denton: Maybe they want to make sure the kids are speaking English 🙂
GOOD LUCK!!!
Yes dittoburg, I had a proper fucked up Anglophile rearing, which meant I read Tom Brown’s School Days and therefore I too know the difference.
🙂
Denton – true, we don’t NEED one. But there are an awful lot of resources that can be used for teaching reading, writing, and thinking on the internets. I’m willing to bet that it would cost less to put a computer in every classroom than it does to buy thousands of terrible textbooks every year.
Fortunately or unfortunately, using a computer properly is fast becoming the modern-day equivalent of penmanship classes – a skill one ought to have in modern life.
No, we don’t need “high priced” (ha!) teachers on site. In fact, if you can get the hidebound, standards-based bureaucracy to agree to use online education (start with GED classes) in place of brick and mortar classrooms, I’d be all for it. Unfortunately too many vested interests would oppose this.
very worldy of you to know that sixyears.
ENY, hah, good one. But you never know 🙂
“While I’m at it, I forgot the new system of “quality review” of schools Klein instituted. We – a large Brooklyn high school – were “reviewed” by an elementary school principal from England. WTF?”
Maybe they want to make sure the kids are speaking English 🙂
6yrs, as long as I’m pissed off, we don’t NEED a computer in every classroom. We have successfully educated children for a few hundred years without them. We need to teach children who to read, write, and think, all of which can be accomplished without computers.
We don’t need to google this and wiki that. But if we do, we can probably do it without high priced teachers on site.
I taught adult ed computer classes for a few years at Murry Bergtraum in the early 1990s, and was appalled at what I saw in the regular classrooms.
Six, ah, thank you, interesting, and helpful. Glad you’ll be better soon!
Denton, I bow in your general direction>>>>>>
“I wonder if they are less depressed or less able to get the medicine.”
We’re less depressed. Anything that could have happened to us has already happened.