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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Homeschooling (was Re: Education and the Environment by Gregory A. Smith)
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 03:30:57 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- In article <1993Jan1.004152.14085@panix.com> jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb) writes:
- >In <1hvedcINNdg4@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:
- >>And what really bugs me is that the people who are killing
- >>public education by pulling their kids out of public
- >>schools have the audacity to blame the problem on
- >>"liberal educators with their social agendas" and
- >>other imagined demons.
- >
- >Your view that it is the parents who are pulling their children out of
- >public school who are causing problems with public education is
- >surprising.
-
- Surprising??
-
- Not really. The less of a constituency public schools have,
- particularly among the educated and those of comfortable finances,
- the worse off the schools become.
-
- >The problem with public schools is not too little financial support --
-
- I never claimed this..
- >So it appears to be the way the
- >resources are being used that is at fault.
-
- Absolutely!
-
-
- >If that's right, the view
- >that professional educators may be among the ones creating the
- >problems may be less of a fantasy than you seem to think.
-
- No, it is *not* a fantasy and I didn't say it was.
-
- There is a LOT of waste in public schools, and that
- is at the heart of the problem.
-
- What I claim is that the *prevalent* fantasy -- about
- "liberals with social agendas" being the ones at fault --
- is blinding the public to the actual nature of the
- waste of resources, thus preventing solutions from occurring.
-
- Steve
-