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Subject: Re: [OM] Economics
From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:39:04 -0600
The thing that once made America great,  is our system of universal public
education. The fall of that system is going to lead to our downfall.

 

From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 2:16 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Economics

 

Ah, I wasn't against state-funded schools, Andrew, but the National
Curriculum in the UK has been self-defeating in part: it has filled the
school week and month without achieving everything that it should have done;
yet it has left no space for schools to add their own content.  It's the NC
that has caused the damage.

The Catholic school to which I sent my sons (St Patrick's, in Tampa) was
fully funded by the parents, I believe.  It was quite a poor school,
financially, but great in educational and pastoral terms.

I don't know what a Charter school might be, but I suspect that the UK's
Academies are similar; I share your antipathy to the ethos and to the CEO's
salary.  In fact, I resent there being a CEO at all  . . .

It looks as if we will soon be rid of CEO's in local government over here.

Chris

On 25 Dec 2010, at 20:59, Jan Steinman wrote:

> I think government-supported education is sorta like democracy -- the
worst possible system, except for all the others out there!
>
> Don't get me started on how charter schools are sucking the life out of
the public schools, while breaking the backs of teacher's unions. And damn
fool people still hold bake sales to support them, while their CEOs earn ten
times as much as school principals!
>
> (I realize that for-profit charter schools are very different from the
Catholic school Chris mentioned. But it's a slippery slope when people start
agitating for public funding for private schools, be they non-profit or
not.)

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