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From Arthur Needham: Great Web Site! |
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From Arthur Needham: Great Web Site! |
Subj: Your web site
Date: 98-05-11 06:28:54 EDT
From: Abnhma (Arthur Needham) MA
To: FFlavio
Fred,
WOW!!
I am only partway through your site. You must have some GREAT people working for you. For instance, I have been saying for some time what John Silber said (tho not so cogently, of course) I did not know he had written anything about Special Ed...
The name alone of Chester Finn's article is a an attention grabber "Education Free Zones" indeed. I am immediately reminded of Bill Maravelle's remark, as we drove past the high school where we both taught, on our way to a survey job, "Arthur, if a little learning is a dangerous thing, that place is positively explosive, so little learning takes place there..." Great stuff by Chester Finn! Read another way, Finn's stuff says what I have been saying... The system fails on purpose, deliberately... However, Finn is enough of an analyst so he can detail where the system is bleeding. ..
After noting that approx. 1/3 of "education spending goes to pay the actual teachers, Finn notes, "The consumers of public education are far more numerous than its producers, but they have no viable means of influencing the decision making process." Perhaps COGG could provide that forum, by recruiting students and parents. COGG could weave this into efforts to help students through tutoring sessions; efforts by influential and/or rich COGG members could help poorer students through a combination of educational/economic programs which found jobs for kids and employees for local business -- while undercutting the "permit" or "working papers" process by which the schools control employment. The system would be "hoist on its own petard"; they cannot very well discourage employment while talking "School to Work..." This could be a win-win-win situation for COGG, and students and local businesses. The local principals and schools would not dare to claim that COGG was propagandizing the students -- because COGG is not receiving public monies to do this.
Newt Gingrich has it right. He says every child be able to read by the end of First Grade !!!
...and if you think of it, ask a chemistry professor -- or a chemist working for COGG -- what he thinks of my (admittedly simplistic) explanation for the rise in CO2.
...and I see you have an article on Home Schooling. I had been meaning to mention that -- as my spies in the local system say home schooling has increased by a factor of 10 over the last 10 years. On fact, I tout home schooling every chance I get...
It looks as if you -- meaning COGG --have covered everything.
Arthur B. Needham
94 Richardson Road
Fitchburg, MA
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