Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is the problem, we are constantly taking away the tools our teachers require to do their job. And therefore the students do not learn the basics. On the other hand this is not just a problem here in the U.S. Our German daughters brother has failed his school tests 2 years in a row now. Kat herself, while a straight A student here, found she had to work late each night (sometimes until 1AM or later) to keep up and get assignments done. Her English skills, by the way were excellent. She made the honor roll each term this past year, but she had to work at it. Gene |---------+--------------------------------------------------------> | | "Oliver" <oliverbryk@iqmail.net> | | | Sent by: | | | lug-bounces+grduprey=rockwellcollins.com@leic| | | a-users.org | | | | | | | | | 06/23/2004 06:41 PM | | | Please respond to Leica Users Group | | | | |---------+--------------------------------------------------------> >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "Users Group Leica" <lug@leica-users.org> | | cc: | | Subject: [Leica] declining quality of writing | >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Dan wrote: <snip> "...it seems obvious that the quality of education, as a whole, and the children who are the product of that education are slipping into a morass of mediocrity." I remember a Congressman going on and on (in the 1970s) in the House about some newspaper's citicism of mediocrity in American education, finally concluding his remarks with the ringing phrase, "What's wrong with mediocrity?" Oliver Bryk _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information