Klarinet Archive - Posting 001020.txt from 2000/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Very much on-topic language skills
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:43:34 -0500

From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
My family... my mother taught for 10 years or so, her father was the
> superintendant of schools in Threeway (small Texas town) for some amount
of
> years... my brother substituted for a while before he decided to join the
> Navy (as an Intelligence Officer... he broke the current test average
record
> for his OSC training- he wasn't dumb), my great aunt who still teached at
a
> local elementary, my father was a filght instructor at Reese Air Force
base
> (since decomissioned) and my knowledge of teachers I know today. Most
> agree, that in this area, at least, teachers have on the average become
> worse. My great aunt has been teaching her whole professional life, and
> thus has a very good view of what has happened, and my mother taught her
> many years ago, and can provide a good source as well. The teachers I
have
> today are generally uncaring and try to get too chumy with the students,
> which does hinder one's ability to learn and be disciplined (no, not
> spanked, criticized is perhaps a better word).

That's too bad. I've lived on the East Cost, West Coast and Central US, out
in the Far East, and that hasn't been the case anywhere I've ever lived.
Hopefully the education problem you've described is very limited. Hopefully
the bigotry you demonstrated earlier today is limited, too ...

Mark Charette@-----.org
Webmaster, http://www.sneezy.org

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