Klarinet Archive - Posting 000140.txt from 2006/04

From: "Dee Flint" <deeflint01@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:03:22 -0400


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From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
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Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: [kl] Business aspects of music performance & education

> In this case, by the time the actual "proof" is in, if my opinion (and
> those
> of others who share the same view) turns out to have been right the
> disaster
> I see coming will already have arrived. Unfortunately, this is not a
> controlled laboratory experiment in a closed environment, and if the
> "experimenters" - the Federal officials who have concocted NCLB and
> pressed
> for its legislative passage - turn out to be incorrect in their
> hypothesis,
> i.e. that every child will be academically successful by 2014 if the
> prescription is followed, the mess that will be left will take years to
> clean up and we will be no closer to a real solution to the real problem.
>
> It's hard for me to watch that happen, and it isn't possible for me to
> reserve judgment when so much is at stake and the logic seems to me to be
> so
> flawed.
>
> Karl
>

We have that same problem with every system proposed and tried. It will not
be possible to have "proof" until quite some time has passed. Look at the
mess before the NCLB. That too was decades in the making.

Unfortunately there is no way to "test" a fix before trying it. Short of
providing individual tutors for each and every child so that each can be
taught as appropriate there is no simple solution.

Dee

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