[Mpls] What is your school up to?/If not teaching kids the 3 R's / List Archiive 3/03

[PennBroKeith at cs.com]

Keith says now: I really didn't care for the last MPS super; far from.


In a message dated 3/20/03 8:47:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, kushn002 at umn.edu 
writes:

> Why not just go ahead and complete the process that has been taking place
>  for the past 20 years.  Make the schools nothing but a training ground to
>  mold students into corporate commodities

Keith says; I wish that were closer to the truth, and the actual outcome. I 
will presume you are on point, this time, and thus referring to Mpls. Public 
Schools. The last twenty years, and the ten before them, have shown: Too high 
a percentage of the kids cannot read, write, or solve a math problem at 
appropriate skill levels. I will not blame a teacher; or teachers. I will 
blame the Kumbayah Clique that in the past (remember Green?) ripped down our 
public school stock, and stopped having a curriculum of education and student 
success, by measurable standards. If this institution does "mold students 
into corporate commodities", it is into the shape of the burgers they will be 
flippin'. Nothin' corporate about,  "Would you like fries with that happy 
deal?"

I thank a teacher I can write this, 

Keith Reitman   NearNorth