Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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As for me, I attended public schools throughout my education. They
did d*mn well by me. I'll grant that I went to a high school that
routinely ranks in the top of schools nationwide, and furthermore that
I was lucky in that I was in the accelerated track, which tends to
draw highly motivated teachers, but in any case, I don't feel I missed
out by getting a public school education. I do wish everyone had
access to the kinds of teachers I had in high school.

I truly feel your experience is the exception. I know that of the 5 high
schools in the city I grew up 4 of them were a complete waste and I attended
the worst. The best advice I ever got was from my 10th grade English teacher.
She pulled me aside one day and ask "What are you still doing here? Tell
your parents about this program and get out." The program? The California
High School Proficiency Exam. What I would have wasted on 11th and 12th grade
was spent in college.
so...
because there are flaws in the system, scrap it alltogether?
i personally live in europe and even though there are problems with the
public education and some things get worse at the moment (some of it
has to do with cutting the funding and tell schools and univercities to
get private sponsorship), you tell me just because as i heard, and have
read in the disussion here it does not work to well in the US, and seems
to more or less in other countries...just scrap the whole system?

even though it might sound a bit sarcastic, but if you follow through
that idea with other fields, why not scrap the whole goverment and laws
and have everybody look for themselves.
yes, you could say that not everybody is able to do that, but not every
kid is able to get good private education...and it is not the kids fault
that their parents cant afford it...so have the kids start their jobs
with a big minus on their bank account so that they have to work for
have of their live to pay it back (if they are lucky and don't loose
their jobs for one way or another)?

yours
albert

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Albert Dengg <a_d@xxxxxx>
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