On 26 Apr 2004 at 16:43, Herman Rubin wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Jay Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sorry, I can't help adding $0.02 to the discussion of what is > >clearly a hot button for this group. > > >1) if (primary & secondary) schools provide what the more vocal > >parents claim they want, is this not what they are supposed to do? > > There is no more reason that children should have to have > the exact same type of education just because they are the > same age and live in the same geographical area than they > should eat the exact same type of food and wear the exact > same type of clothing. This was imposed about 70 years ago > by the educationists. > Let me only add: and no more reason than requiring them all to belong to the same (or any) religion, or requirin them to participate in the same political party's youth groups!
I just moved my daugters (7,9 years) from their first school, getting fed-op with the tradistional stype, which probably where not that worse than many others, to a new , somewhat experimenta school with less than 100 studets total, and 4 anf 5 grade in tha same class (must be great to have different ages in same group!). My oldest daughters first comment was "it is hard to think so much", which I think was a good sign. (By the way, the director of that school never went to teachers college, probably good) Kjetil Halvorsen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
