Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bashing (teacher)...there is a queue.....who was first again... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Wilcox" <klw.51@comcast.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Cc: "Javier Perez" <summarex@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 9:04 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: really off topic funding schools > Where is this? It does not reflect MY experience as a public school > teacher. Any trip that I took (out of state) during the 28 years of > my career was at my personal expence or funded by another group, such > as the COSN or the National Science Foundation. The only financial > support that I received from from the school was that they did not > dock my pay for being gone. > > The only computer that my school provided me was a (dispite the fact > that for many years I was the technology consultant) was a plain low > end Windoz machine, and that wasn't till after the computer labs were > WELL equipped with far better computers. > > The fact is that most teachers in my state werre not provided ANY > computer until a state program was begun to buy for their use a > cheepy laptop, > > Public school teachers in this country are a very hard wokring, > underpaid and under appreciated group. Inflamitory postings like > yours add the problem. Teacher bashing is alive and well in the US. > > Ken Wilcox > > At 5:20 AM -0700 4/29/02, Javier Perez wrote: > >Hmm > >Good point > >Let me jump in > >I didn't catch the beginning of this but when it comes > >to funding schools, let me tell you; I worked in a > >school and saw first hand the voracious apetite for > >funding that existed on the part of the educators and > >administrators. Every penny spent was spent on them in > >the name of the students. I'm talking then top class > >Pentium machines for all the teachers so they could > >learn to use the > >internet and pass the knowledge on to the students! > >All this while the students were strapped down to 8mb > >486dx33s with 640k unaccelerated vga boxes that took > >10 minutes to boot into 3.1 if they didn't crash along > >the way. > >Then there were the field trips to places like Cuba > >done in order to promote understanding between the > >them and them others. Entire delegations would travel > >at taxpayer expense. A few students were thrown in for > >good measure. > >When questioned about their spend thrift proclivities > >each group would blame the other and nothing ever got > >solved. > >Anyway there are far better things to spend your money > >on than schools that don't teach anything. > >Javier > > > > > > > >--- Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net> wrote: > >> >snip). I think it would work well if no one felt > >> the need to send > >> >more than one message on this topic. > >> > >> .....and sending more than a total of three messages > >> per day (five on Sundays). > >> > >> Chris ;-) > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Christer Almqvist > >> D 20255 Hamburg and / or > >> F 50590 RegnÈville sur Mer > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see > >http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > >http://health.yahoo.com > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > _____________________ > Ken Wilcox > klw.51 at comcast.net > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html