uup until now i was very impressed with you and your arguement. thats why i have a very difficult time acepting your last letter. where inb trhe world did almost everything you wrote about come from. one of us is from mars the other from pluto,.im not even sure im can begin to answer it. but here goes. as a general over all statement referring th=o your synopsism of my writing i did nt say that.----what didnt i say? almost everythuing you say i said.
That’s why I say use a word processor and clean up your spelling and grammar. It’s very difficult to understand what you mean.
lets try. what would happen to surplus teachers. we would do just as wo did about 25 or 30 years ago. we started to emphasized the necessity for teachers to have masters degrees. uo until the time there were not any where near as many as there are now. lo and behold, salaries went up and so did the number of teachers with masters degrees, was and is there still a backlog of teachers who did not and do not have masters oh yes. some who dont even have degrees in teaching a sh=ubject.
Two points – I was in grad school when that happened in Georgia. I attended Georgia State University’s adjunct campus at Fort Benning. We military students were called in and told many civilians would now be going to class with us – and the standards were set: “The civilian teachers will not be held to the same standards as you will be held. That’s especially true of minority teachers – we can’t afford to wash them out.”
The second point is, to this day you cannot teach school in most states unless you have a degree in
Education. A PHD with a Nobel prize in Chemistry would be “unqualified” to teach and would have to go back to college and pick up credits in
Education.
On the other hand, a teacher with a master’s degree in Education and a few undergraduate courses in Chemistry would be legally qualified to teach Chemistry in the public schools.
Bottom line – even if the teacher has a graduate degree, the teacher is
not an expert in the field.
what dio you do about it, exactly as we are doing, you accept the fact that this is going to happen in a society that is doing the best it can and plow on.
No, you don’t! You** don’t** wash your hands of the 30% of children who drop out of school, and of those who graduate unable to read and write.
You
don’t shrug your shoulders and say, “That’s the best we can do” and plow on.
Those children are American citizens, and they have a Constitutional
right to Equal Protection Under the Law – that is, a right to the same quality education other kids get.
would it be nice if we could devise a systen where all the teachers magically achieved not only a doctotrate but the knowledge inherent in a doctors degree, oh yes. is thee any way we can do it that would not violate the terms of the contract we made with these people when we hired them without a requirement that thet get a doctorate. NO. (end of part 1 sorry bu my 2 finger get very tired more a little later if yiou wish me to, come to think ofiyou cant stop me,. well you dodnt have to read it
Ah, you have put your finger on it – better to sacrifice the
children than to “violate the contract” with the teachers.
How many generations of poor children are you willing to sacrifice?
Here begins the tutorial: You can quote a post, and reply to it point by point (as I did in this post.) You begin by clicking on the “quote” button next to the “reply” button in the lower right of the window…
When you do that, you will see the other person’s text preceeded by a quote code – in this case, your quote code is QUOTE=ALFREDENEUMAN;3609780. I have left it incomplete – there should be a square bracket at the end.
You take the part you want to reply to and end the quote with /QUOTE (again, the ending square bracket is missing.)
If you want to address several sections (as I have in this post), you cut and past the original quote code at the head of the next quoted section.
