Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-09-01 Thread jamesd
-- On 31 Aug 2001, at 11:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, you depend more than you think on government actions for essentials even though they have private brand labels. Second, why do you think that when someone is a government employee they are automatically inferior to everyone in

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread measl
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : zap my old stuff : Another facet is that the well-to-do are attempting to remove their funds from the systems so they can use those funds to educate their children as they choose. A voucher system would surely

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
Duncan Frissell wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I said was that actions can have unintended consequences. Make well considered choices. Look at the power industry deregulation in CA. Too much, too quickly and poorly crafted. By all means let's improve the

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread mmotyka
To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Learn to read poopyhead (isn't that now the official CP insult?). Actually, I think the currently hip term would be twit :-) Dunno, I've seen both recently. Just trying to live up to my slave training and conform. Look at the part you snipped : I'm not saying

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:59:04AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, why do you think that when someone is a government employee they are automatically inferior to everyone in the private sector? That's irrational. Right. Folks in the policy arms of the federal government can be quite

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-31 Thread Declan McCullagh
At 02:29 PM 8/31/01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some jobs do not attract the best and brightest but I think it's safe to assume that even in what you might consider the least likely places you will find some very sharp people. Your example of the Bush WH staffers is proof ;) More seriously,

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-29 Thread David Honig
At 09:13 AM 8/29/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/28/1868/27867 I've been reading the cover article in Time magazine about home schooling, and it makes me wonder. One of the primary questions the article poses is this: Home schooling may turn out

Re: kuro5hin.org || How Home-Schooling Harms the Nation

2001-08-29 Thread mmotyka
David Honig [EMAIL PROTECTED] : At 09:13 AM 8/29/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: http://www.Kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/28/1868/27867 I've been reading the cover article in Time magazine about home schooling, and it makes me wonder. One of the primary questions the article poses is