On bureacracy and Katrina

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But Coke doesn't pay the teachers salaries, nor do they decide on what is taught in schools.

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via washington.edu

 

One of the most egregious aspects of corporate predation in public schools is the increasing use of corporate logos and brand names in K-12 textbooks. By "sponsoring" educational materials, corporations have been able not only to get "product placement" in these materials, but also to influence the very content of what students are being taught. As a consequence, education is being manipulated by corporate influence to the point where children learn to do math by counting Tootsie Rolls and learn "the value of work" by learning how to run a McDonald's restaurant (in addition to learning how Hershey Bars are part of a nutritionally balanced diet, and how clear-cut logging is actually good for the environment).

 

Even worse examples of this phenomenon include an environmental science curriculum sponsored by Exxon which includes a truly imaginative revisionist history of the 1989 Valdez oil spill (guess how badly Exxon indicts itself), and a social-studies curriculum focusing on Indonesia which somehow never mentions the Suharto dictatorship or the 1975 invasion of East Timor. This last curriculum was developed and sponsored by - guess who - Mobil, Texaco, and Chevron, in cahoots with Lippo Bank and the Indonesian Government.

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That's AWESOME.

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The problem is, in inner-city schools, vouchers won't do a damn bit of difference. There is a wall you'll hit when it comes to inner-cities not because of funding or teachers or anything like that, but family relationships and environment.

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Education is not a simple economic equation that can be solved by privatization. There are public schools in Kansas that I'd put in head to head competition with almost any private school in the country. They are successful because of parental involvement and a belief by the administration that every child needs to feel like they are part of a community.

 

The other problem with vouchers is that it will cause a across-the-board tuition hike because the demand for private education will outweigh the supply.

 

Statistics that show that private schools provide better outcomes fail to take into consideration 4 factors:

1) they can deny service to any child that doesn't meet their academic criteria, and thus do not have as many unmotivated students pulling averages down

2) they do not have to provide special education services, and thus do not have special education students pulling averages down

3) they can kick out disruptive students at any time, without having to go through 5 layers of red tape

4) they often do not have to take the state assessments everyone else does, thus are not measured by the same criteria

Edited September 10, 2005 by Y2Jerk

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Statistics that show that private schools provide better outcomes fail to take into consideration 3 factors:

1) they can deny service to any child that doesn't meet their academic criteria, and thus do not have as many unmotivated students pulling averages down

2) they do not have to provide special education services, and thus do not have special education students pulling averages down

3) they can kick out disruptive students at any time, without having to go through 5 layers of red tape

4) they often do not have to take the state assessments everyone else does, thus are not measured by the same criteria

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Well we can tell you went to public school

 

EDIT: Nice edit.

 

EDIT2ELECTRICBOOGALOO: I went to public school too. I'm just funnin'

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Czech bringing the profound critical analysis of my revised list of points. Good job.

 

Next do you want to discount Smith's "Wealth of Nations" because of a typo you found on page 344?

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Czech bringing the profound critical analysis of my revised list of points.  Good job. 

 

Next do you want to discount Smith's "Wealth of Nations" because of a typo you found on page 344?

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I went to public school too. I'm just funnin'

 

And yes, what IS this "invisible hind?"

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And yes, what IS this "invisible hind?"

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Check out the Hilary Duff thread.

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It was the best of times, it was the...blurst of times?!?

[the max 0]

You stupid monkey!

[Slayer 0]

Stupid internet... *pounds monitor*

 

BE MORE FUNNY!