Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I have sympathy for the teachers. In New Orleans public schools, you can keep the students quiet, or you can keep them busy, but not both. The vast majority of time is focused on trying to maintain order. Drugs and weapons are rampant. And the teacher pay sucks, less than a bus driver. The crap English is not the product of education, it is the product of single parent families and parents who don't know how to parent. In my neighborhood, the average age of a single mother is about 13 years old. Don't blame the teachers. Nobody wants that as a profession if you get paid nothing for crap pay and the public's contempt. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:42 PM To: Users Group Leica 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