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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: really off topic funding schools
From: "Karina Klaas" <shutterbug@iinet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 21:54:53 +0800
References: <20020429122007.78979.qmail@web10508.mail.yahoo.com> <a05111704b8f2f2b818b6@[68.61.198.171]>

Bashing (teacher)...there is a queue.....who was first again...



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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  ;-)
> >>
> >>
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In reply to: Message from Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com> (Re: [Leica] really off topic funding schools)
Message from Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net> ([Leica] Re: really off topic funding schools)