On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 06:57:46AM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> On Apr 10, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 4/9/2013 9:30 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>>> Because, simply put, the problem isn't the schools. The problem is at >>>> home. Children who come from families that put a high priority on >>>> education do well in school. If kids see their parents reading in >>>> their free time, they will consider reading a viable leisure time >>>> activity. If they see their parents watching TV, getting drunk etc. >>>> that's what they will consider normal. >>> >> >> Very true. But unfortunately many of today's parents won't provide that kind >> of home environment, and if we merely dismiss their children as uneducable >> we sustain that model. There are places where the schools have to take over >> and do a better job. Detroit, for example. > > Be careful what you say. Aparantly some newscaster on MSNBC > said something very similar and is being roundly denounced > by a wide swath of the population for expressing that view. > I can say what I want about schools. I only have to be careful when talking about car companies:-).
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