Klarinet Archive - Posting 001193.txt from 1997/10

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: what I have to teach
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 19:17:31 -0500

Hey Bill....I'm beginning to think we might even be compatabile enough to
have a beer together!

Roger Garrett

On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Bill Hausmann wrote:
> And THAT is EXACTLY the problem! It IS happening in reading, math,
> science, etc. We simply cannot afford that much damage to the development
> of the 100 on the CHANCE that it will help the one. It is a bad gamble and
> is bankrupting the educational system, as more and more resources are
> poured into the effort to "save" the weakest students on the assumption
> that "the bright ones can take care of themselves." Not that anyone should
> be abandoned, nor that they deserve any LESS attention than the brighter
> ones. But holding back the bright students so the others can have greater
> "self-esteem" is ludicrous. Yet it happens every day in hundreds of schools.
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
> 451 Old Orchard Drive http://www.concentric.net/~bhausman
> Essexville, MI 48732 http://members.wbs.net/homepages/z/o/o/zoot14.html
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.
>