tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post154927512491222141..comments2024-03-28T11:57:21.902-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: The Public Education DreamPeter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-86448527442286769572015-10-10T19:07:08.708-04:002015-10-10T19:07:08.708-04:00Schools need to be fully integrated. As long as th...Schools need to be fully integrated. As long as the economically better off are all in certain schools, and the economically worse off in others, there will be a large disparity between the quality of those schools. Mike Mackennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07112693042345958402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-42300569814676243022015-09-19T13:46:14.294-04:002015-09-19T13:46:14.294-04:001) Yes. This is a necessary condition for any chan...1) Yes. This is a necessary condition for any chance of success for 2). That is the rub.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05168566567751854277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-30355602481615074102015-09-19T06:34:11.570-04:002015-09-19T06:34:11.570-04:001) Address the systemic poverty that is eating the...1) Address the systemic poverty that is eating the country<br /><br />2) Give each school the proper support and resources it needs from the statePeter Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-33948629308897331142015-09-18T23:38:28.716-04:002015-09-18T23:38:28.716-04:00How can you have a great neighborhood school for e...How can you have a great neighborhood school for every child with the socioeconomically balkanized housing patterns we see in this country?<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05168566567751854277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-74755053839341026842015-09-17T13:20:57.679-04:002015-09-17T13:20:57.679-04:00I'm with you. Thumbs up.I'm with you. Thumbs up.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-71681077979501628422015-09-17T13:20:26.590-04:002015-09-17T13:20:26.590-04:00Yes, this is the philosophy.Yes, this is the philosophy.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-17907226715230281582015-09-17T12:15:38.167-04:002015-09-17T12:15:38.167-04:00As you say Peter, the goal should be a well staffe...As you say Peter, the goal should be a well staffed, well resourced neighborhood public school. That is every child's right and every citizen's obligation and it is doable through empowering teachers and parents and disempowering education tourists. So very well said as usual.Russ Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01999234982751919638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-7162444474958557792015-09-17T10:10:29.983-04:002015-09-17T10:10:29.983-04:00Surprising for you, but you didn't specificall...Surprising for you, but you didn't specifically address humanity. I mean, it's an underlying subtext in each of your points, but I think we need to be explicit. Children are young, immature, developing human beings. Teachers are more mature and developed (although still developing human beings) whose job it is to guide those younger and less developed humans to find their own best path to becoming competent, aware, engaged, empathetic citizens of a democracy. Any vision for public education has to start with viewing both students and teachers as human beings developing and interacting in a larger world of human beings who all share the same planet which, at the moment anyway, does not have an escape hatch.Diennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04570040547158789834noreply@blogger.com