Keith Hughes wrote:
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No, it is lack of adequate parenting that causes the majority of the
problem, IMO. You apparently think the existence of the public school
system is a valid basis on which parents can abdicate responsibility for
child rearing.

Nobody said that!!! Indeed this thread is all about the parents wanting
to take responsibility?? You can read?? or did you get a union organised
education??

Home education *in addition to* that provided by the
public, or private, education system, has *always* been a prerequiste
for first rate education. West or East.

This is nonsense, you seem to want to take away from the fact western
education standards are dropping & blame parents, that's your right just
as most every parents these days blame unionised dead beat lefty
teachers, the difference is the parents are putting their money where
their mouth is & sending their kids to private "proper" schools instead
of lefty union indoctrination camps.

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Yes, and parent should get involved (as in PARTICIPATE, not spectate) in
their kids education!

So again you agree?? this planned boat trip is a good idea
educationally??? Apart from your mantra about not having access to any
govt funded programs because what?? it competes with the unions draining
the system dry??

Few parents I encounter even know the names of
their children's teachers. Schools, and school boards, respond to the
demands of the community (read 'parents'), and unfortunately, those
demands are too often for a baby-sitting service that passes children
from grade to grade irrespective of their level of attainment. Let me
ask you a couple of questions:

You are in fairyland!! The majority of union teachers are not
interested in anything nor anyone but themselves & how much they can
bludge from the system. Krause claims to have been a teacher, probably a
lie like everything else he claims, but can you imagine letting your
kids anywhere near him??? By all means teachers can hold views on all
sorts of things, other than the curriculum just don't teach them to
other peoples' kids.


1. Do you think teachers (or professors for that matter) *like* to
reward students for substandard performance?

Of course not, indeed they even help students cheat to avoid it, so
their institutions don't look bad, the parents don't ask how come?? &
the general public don't get wise to the lousy teaching job they're
doing!!! The jig is up, the public have figured it out & don't just take
my word for it; look at how many people are prepared to forgo life's
little luxuries so they can "pay extra" to have their children properly
educated, without the lefty union bias attached.

2. Do you think teachers (or professors for that matter) *like* to to
have students so disruptive that the learning environment for other
students is degraded, without having the disciplinary tools available to
address, or even ameliorate, the situation (small clue here...parents
don't *like* other people to discipline their unruly progeny)?

So first you blame the parents now it's the kids?? give it up it's the
unionised public teachers. But again have a look at the stats public
lefty union teachered schools are avoided like the plague by any parent
who can afford to save their children from them.


3. Do you think the responsibility for teaching respect, courtesy, and
discipline lies with the public school teacher (i.e. instead of with the
parents, as it has been since time immemorial)?

Again so you agree then that these people will do a better job of
educating their boys than your union teachers??? Great ... we agree.

As for the money thing well we can just disagree:-)


If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, I'll be happy to mail
you a quarter should you like to purchase a clue.

Purchase a clue!!!... ahhhh the true socialist:-) They demand
everything be given to "them" free, but have a different view about
themselves

you miss the point. Parents have the responsibility for
preparing their children *for* school, monitoring their performance *at*
school (P.T.A., parent-teacher conferences, etc.), and changing the
educational system when it isn't functioning properly.

Parents have a responsibility to protect their kids from lefty union
teachers who don't educate (have a look at the stats) but do try to
spread the lefty socialist mantra in the classroom.

We live in a
democracy in the US, and inherent in the democratic process is both
personal and social responsibility. Vote out the school board, the
system *will* change. Sit back and carp on newsgroups on the other hand,
and...oh, that's right, nothing happens. Get it?

Get it ?? Hmmmmm the socialist control freak, you're wrong & wrong
because you're an uneducated simpleton, pretty much it seems another
wasted life, we measure them in Krause lives:-). I hate to mention this
here, but do you think we may have our oxygen back???


Ever heard of greed? We (in the US) live in the short term. We
artifically elevate our standard of living (on the cheap labor of third
world countries, to a large extent) without thought to long term
consequences. That is a serious social/cultural issue we certainly need
to address.

You are another Krause type socialist, who's totally uneducated & has
no understanding of anything. World trade is the best thing going for
the US & the rest of the west & wait for it....... also the countries
you pretend to be worried about. You've never looked into it but don't
bother, for you don't have the wherewithal to understand.


Your postulate, however, that (and I'm paraphrasing of course) if our
children were better educated, *we* would be making the clothes, shoes,
toys, TV's, VCR's, DVD players, etc. that comprise the bulk of that
"95%", is ludicrous on its face. These are produced by unskilled, or
semi-skilled workers (as commonly defined), where the cost per unit
rules the day (almost entirely a function of living standard), NOT the
education level of the workforce.

It's the desire for those things from the west that makes the market,
but it's also the design inventive skills & much more importantly the
capital from the west that creates all those jobs, & those jobs are the
driver of a better world for all.

Now if the funds saved assembling cheap widgets & helping the 3rd world
at the same time, could have created a better education system in the
west then we would invent ever better things, which we would demand be
manufactured etc etc. The flies on the dung heap are the western unions,
particularly the teachers, who are living in the past & can't see past
the comfort of their union organised thug campaigns.


Sorry to snatch the easy bone from your jaws

It's easy to see which bone you hang onto.

, but no, I'm not a teacher
(never have been, not married to one). I was, however, lucky enough to
have been raised by parents and grandparents who believed in education,
and their rearing techniques reflected it. So I know adequate parenting
when I see it, even seeing so rarely.

You're not a teacher, you can't understand anything the socialist
mantra hasn't fed you, which end did they feed it???


And to those whining about a tax rebate for home schooling,

Nobody asked for a rebate!!! you brought up that you didn't want these
boat boys to have access to the system their parents have helped pay
for. Yes education is a social good but let parents decide how they
achieve it for their own kids, subject to mandated standards of academic
achievement. Hey lefty parents can support the lefty teachers?? oops no
no no:-) guess what?? it's the lefty parents leading the charge of
sending their kids to proper schools.

Damn the union teachers won't even allow us to test to confirm what we
all know, which is they're hopeless at what we pay them for; to teach.

how about
for those who have no children? Shall I get a rebate for the 30 years
I've been paying property taxes for schools I'm not using? Or the roads
*I* don't personally drive on, or the Fire Department *I've* never
personally used, or...get the point? Public education, as with all
social services, benefits *society as a whole* when done properly. We
all reap the benefits, we all pay the costs. We all have a
responsibility to get out and do something when it's not done properly.
Look at voter turnout and tell me how involved people are in society.

Well at least it's good to know Darwinism is at work as regards you.
Now how about that oxygen, any chance we may have it back???

K

Keith Hughes