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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ah, James or Denise, you're talking p.s. folks.  They are trained to raise 
their hands to ask to go to the bathroom, for crying out loud.  Our 
government bares the responsibility for creating the problem!

P.S. sheoplizing works real well.  Few come out of those 12 or so years 
unscathed and able to actually think for themselves.  Particularly those in 
the low-rent schools!

So, yes there are other options but the other half of that question you 
wanted answered means dismantling the p.s. system and that's not going to 
happen because I know you've heard it as many times as I have "I survived 
it" blah, blah, blah.

The math books teach consumerism.  The social studies books teach lies and 
that somehow the world owes you something.  Kindergarten teachers use M & Ms 
and other candy to teach counting, for crying out loud.  "Here, Johnny, if 
you can tell me how many M & Ms are in this pile, you get to eat them."

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> The workshops you refer to are indeed dismal.  But I have to ask if an
> impoverished person (or any person) is owed the opportunity for 
> professional
> training?  I know you are not addressing the question from that angle. 
> Rather if
> that person earned the income that good voc training would give them, the 
> expense
> would be returned to society in having someone off the dole and into the
> skilled workforce.
>
> That seems to only be addressing half question.  We don't need, can't use,
> half a million radiology technicians and paralegals and such.  And we DO 
> need
> people to man convenience stores and clean rooms.  But in the end all we 
> are
> doing is trying to make the poor person a good consumerist.  That, says I, 
> is
> what the problem is to begin with.