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In article <38dv1s$l66@crl10.crl.com>, woulf@crl.com (A L Woulf) wrote:

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> Public Schools Inc. cannot succeed without a radically different 
> management model.  Only managers who are competent teachers themselves 
> can effectively hire and supervise competent teachers.  And only 
> competent teachers can determine what equipment and supplies they need to do 
> their jobs.  When Public Schools Inc. figures out how to involve competent 
> teachers in the decision-making process, and how to compensate teachers
> based on results, then you might start seeing an improvement in such things
> as standardized test scores.  Not before.
> 
> (Al) woulf@crl.com

Agreed. But I don't think that it's even possible to reach consensus today
on what a "competent teacher" might be.  Maybe it's just time to think
about the possibility that our concept of a public school is no longer
viable. Of course you and I know that what we want our children to learn
is what all respectable parents want their children to learn.  Don't we? 
Sure, there are a lot of weirdos out at the margins of society who think
differently, but if we just teach their kids the right stuff, all of that
anti-social thinking can be corrected in a generation or two, can't it?

Now of course I'm sure that what I believe about this is right, and I'm
sure that you agree with me. But what are we going to do about all those
...  others?