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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Magnet schools
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.030811.913@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:08:11 GMT
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- In article <86362@ut-emx.uucp> andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard) writes:
- >Don't make school mandatory.
- >That sounds pretty radical, I know, but think about it. A kid who
- >doesn't want to be at the school in the first place isn't getting
- >anything out of being there, and there's a strong chance he's actually
- >disrupting the learning of the students who DO want to be there.
-
- How do you do this without also making easier the situation where the kid
- _does_ want to be at school, but the parents don't (say, so the kid can get a
- job and get money for the family)?
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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