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Sue Cauhape's avatar

IMHO, the DOE's problem was promoting the top heavy administrative order of school districts. Of course, making public school equally efficient and standardized in their curricula seems to be impossible. I would think (and perhaps it's just me) that PUBLIC schools would all hold to a standard of excellence measured across the country in every community. Local cultural aspects can be taught and practiced outside the school room (church, sports teams, community picnics/event, parental/family dynamics and histories) What we've got since the one-room schoolhouse was abandoned for the PUBLIC school is a mishmash according to how much money buys what quality of teacher, bossed around by whatever bat-sh*t-crazy school board/PTA is available. Maybe getting rid of the present DOE and starting all over again will help ... maybe. Personally, I vote for homeschool. Rough-and-tumble, nuts and bolts, parental input, non-schooling John Holt homeschools. FIE! Let the chaos begin.

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Satchel's avatar

Excellent! My high school had a few similar oddities. The most memorable was the Civics teacher who was an ex-boxer with a cauliflower ear and (presumably) a TBI. The boys caught on early that if they asked him a question about boxing, the rest of the class would be devoted to his reminiscences, so we could all zone out

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