Old Weird Ward
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Friday, October 17, 2003
- - - - - Interesting Education Rant - - - - -
This is an excerpt from a rant about education from Jerry Pournelle (site HERE). Find the full rant HERE, and read it, by all means. Well worth your time. Note: I agree with most of his rant, and with all of the excerpt below.
"....Get State and Federal money out of the school business. Make local districts raise the money and give local boards the control of that money. Abolish all forms of tenure and union "protection" of teachers. Yes: that will bring us back to the "Our Miss Brooks" days of teachers being worried about what the school board thinks of them. So be it. It's not a good or fair result, it's not desirable, but it's preferable to the madness we have now.
In the District of Columbia, make Congress take over the system. It can spend anything it likes: but it is to be responsible for results, and until it is getting better results than the rest of the country, Washington and its "experts" can keep their silly mouths shut about how to teach kids in public schools, since clearly they can't teach their own -- of course most Congresscritters and Department of Education officials don't send their children to public schools. Which ought to tell you a lot.
One way we can tell if they have done a good job in DC is when the children of the mighty go to the public schools in the District. Don't hold your breath."
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