Playing School In Katrina's Wake

"While much of New Orleans’ recovery was mired in post-Katrina red tape, anti-government advocates and for-profit education corporations, the Bush Administration rushed in to transform the New Orleans public school system into a market-driven smorgasbord."

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/05/playing_sch...in_katrinas_wake.php

Publicly Supported Education

"A public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation."

--Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806. ME 3:423

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1370.htm

Teachers unions hate competition.

I've got a great class for the first day of school.

"If you live in a hole that is below sea level, water just might flood your neighborhood".

I wonder if they have classes on boat building?

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Originally posted by Sawdust:
Teachers unions hate competition.

Probably, they hate low wages and lack of proper school funding even more. At least, that's my cousins complaint.

She sucks up the low wages because she loves teaching and has a husband who makes up for the low wages. Others, who would also make fine teachers aren't as fortunate.

Want the least qualified to enter teaching? Drive the best potential teachers into private industry where they can earn a proper living.

As a nation's educational standards decline, so does its productive capabilities in a technological age.

Democracy thrives with a well-educated populace...not an elitist, partially educated populace. Even the old USSR did the same as we are seeking to impliment. Party members, the elite, received the education. The average citizen learned how to read and write. Period.

A two-tiered educational system is not a good thing unless you're aiming for an elitist, authoritarian state.

Retired Monk
"Ideology is a disease"

Sawdust,

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Teachers unions hate competition.

That's a pretty old bogeyman, unions are almost gone, and with them the lower standard of living that followed the annihilation [note: it's not decimation, that's only killing one out of every ten]. My teachers were public, were good, some seeking to avoid draft, but excellent all around, as was my school district. New Orleans now...the ones waiting


The Douglass students know of Beckett. Douglass is a state school.