City Thinking is Stuck in the 90s

[finehoe]

...or only 60% of the food you bought at the store was edible.

The Free Market insures that can never happen!

[Dog Walker]

So you agree that we should have a free market in education!?!?!  Sorry couldn't resist the gotcha.  LOL!

[finehoe]

^^I guess you didn't click on the never. 

[Dog Walker]

^^I guess you didn't click on the never. 

Went right by me!  Egg all over my face?  ROFLMAO!

[Ocklawaha]

Whilst observing the unloading of a sailing ship in Mobile, an Englishman was astounded when he heard the following dialog.

"Toss those bales (huge refrigerator size cotton bales) down in that hold, them boys will catch them and stack them."

"Send me some more Negroes so we can get it done by sunset..."

"Negroes HELL! I'm not sending none of my Negroes down there, they might get hurt, send the Paddy's (Irish slaves) down there, their damn near worthless anyway."

Stephen and I talked about this the other day, basically take everything you learned about Colonial America and slavery in school and stick it in your round file.  Slavery was NOT pretty, nor was it exclusively in the South, nor was it all Black.  Did you know the first slave ship was built and sailed from Marble Head Massachusetts? TRUE!



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[cityimrov]

As you say, it all depends on the parent and the child.

Even though he's controversial, I think he made a good point on his show.  Bill O'Reilly basically posed this idea to society: "What are we, as a society to do when parent's don't care about their child?"  

Home school is great when you have good caring somewhat educated parents.  Unfortunately, in our world today, there's a lot of kids out there w/o a single loving parent.  What is society suppose to do with these kids?  What happens when they grow up?  Sure, blame the parents but the parent's don't care one bit.  

The second problem are good teachers & administrators.  Finding a good teacher & a good administrator is extremely difficult.  Chances are, if they are good, they aren't working for the local public school system.  They are either trying to get a tenure track professorship job, a high paying research job, a high paying corporate job, or so on.  That basically leaves the rest - the not so smart and not best & brightest of society to teach the kids.  I believe it's gotten worse since the women's revolution since a large portion of the smart women are now going after those high paying corporate jobs leaving the not so smart and not so good women to become public school teachers.  That makes very good teachers rarer and rarer these days.  

Like a lot of our problems, if every parent were good, caring, and least tried to be educated, probably 50% of all the problems we face today wouldn't exist.  However, that's not our world and we're now stuck with this mess.  

[Ocklawaha]

Jacksonville thinking might be stuck in the 90's but what they didn't say was that it is the 1890's.


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