"Bob Coleslaw" wrote innews:d2d210$if$ vouchers are a really bad idea. i do NOT want my tax dollars used to fund any type of private school, especially not any flavor of parochial school. i have no issues with private schools, my kid attends one, but i want my taxes to fix the public schools for the kids who can't go to private school for whatever reason. vouchers may help the elite, but they'll hurt the kids who need better schools the most.lee

On this question, I have no problems. The public schools,as they are run, are hopeless. The idea that childrenshould be with their age groups, instead of being taughtto the best of their abilities, whatever they may be, isantithetic to real learning. Even the idea of a childbeing in a "grade" needs to be scrapped.Also, most of the teachers can no longer teach concepts.One does not learn to understand concepts by memorizationand other rote material. The not too strong mathematicscourses of most of a century ago have been scrapped infavor of teaching how to get answers where the questionsare not even known, instead of incorporating the conceptualadvances of the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries.Attempts to teach the concepts to teachers have beenlargely unsuccessful; they know too much that ain't so.At this time, we do not have a good idea how to teach well,so we will need to have lack of control. There are nowvery few academic private schools. Most will continue touse the...

Re: Do you support educational vouchers in schools?

Mar 30, 2005 123 Replies

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toto 21 years ago

Look at the headers.

I rarely snip headers when responding as I don't know which group the original came from. I have tried to remember to clip out the woodworking group, but usually I just reply to all. Please killfile the thread if it bothers you. The thread is relevant on mk and me. I will attempt to cut rw out, but most people will not do this, so you are going to have to deal with that fact.

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Joe 21 years ago

TAKE THE WOODWORKING NEWSGROUP OUT OF YOUR SUBJECT TITLE! UNLESS U WANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR HOBBY.

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Joe 21 years ago

Take woodworking out of your send to group. We don't care about vouchers.

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Nan 21 years ago

Here's a better idea.... either killfile the posters, or the entire thread. When people respond, they don't know where the originating post came from, so it makes sense to include all groups.

Nan

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