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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Education---Catch 'em early
  • Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:54:09 -0700

Lynda wrote:

Gee, Tvo, where are they going to get those "high" quality instructors?
From ps?


tvoivozhd---plenty of them. Teaching has become a revolving door---the good ones learn a bitter lesson, teachers and teaching has near-zero priority. Teachers effectively pay the school system instead of the school system paying them fairly for their work. I am tired of having to fill the gap between what my PhD daughter-teacher receives as salary and what it costs to live in unlivable Virginia Beach. After having me gnaw at her for several years, she finally kissed the SOB's goodbye and is taking off three months Sept. 21st to look at work that pays enough to justify the effort. She took a $20,000 reduction from her former marketing position salary to teach school in Virginia.

Ray Zentz did the same thing---fine music and musical theatre teacher who loved his work but got a bellyful of being cheated by low salary and got out of the school system. The overpaid schoolteacher is a myth.

The "quality" of education has decreased with each addition of state and
federal interferance!


tvoivozhd---where the "quality" of parents and pupils has declined---in tandem with flight of jobs from the ghettos, and the Republicrats nod off in response. The administrative staff is an insupportable burden---assistants for assistants for assistants, if the taxpaying public has the will this can be changed. Changing the economy of the ghettos, with it the nurture of children is fairly easily attainable with opportunity zones to bring in new employers or home-grown startups---but the politicobabble from Washington is and will probably remain All Hat And No Cattle.

When children went to K to fingerpaint and fight over who got the triangle,
they got a better education than they do now with supposed inprovements and
higher wages for teachers.


tvoivozhd---I wouldn't want my kids or grandkids fighting over the triangle---the world has changed, I want every kid to have access to a computer and I don't want their teachers to earn less than they could if they got a job as a garbage collector.

Throwing more money and requiring more and more time with the government
nanny is NOT the answer!


tvoivozhd---that is the problem---teachers and teaching have no respect, insufficient pay and being described as government nannys is a hell of a good way to further degrade instead of upgrade education.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:23 AM
Subject: [Homestead] Education---Catch 'em early


tvoivozhd---let me get this straight---throwing more money at General Dynamics, Lockheed, Boeing and their designers produces worse airplanes?
I never heard of $100,000 corporate employees passing the hat to buy pencils and paper for Airbus or Dassault---teachers in the United States dig in their pockets for $438 each year to buy school essentials for pupils that local or state defunders choose not to buy.


Cost of early education is less than any alternative. I don't care how
the hell it is done, just do it.












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