Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Education of Children Message-ID: <221@psivax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 19:39:02 EST Article-I.D.: psivax.221 Posted: Mon Jan 7 19:39:02 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:41:58 EST References: <771@reed.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 49 Summary: In article <771@reed.UUCP> eric@reed.UUCP (Johnson) writes: >. >If you feel I have not done justice to the public schools' >treatment of English, Science, History, Sociology in my >characterization of the schools' treatment of these subjects, >then I invite anecdotal evidence to the contrary. >All I can remember is learning that such_and_such was *the* cause >of the so_and_so war. >The atom *is* a little solar system with little balls going >around a bigger ball. >A verb is a word of action. >The swan in this poem means the author's dead wife. > It depends largely on *where* you went to school. I was lucky, my high school was a large, well-funded school. It offers "advanced" courses in many subjects. I graduated knowing calculus and the beginnings of college level biology.(There were also college level physics and chemistry). I had also learned how to program a computer(in fortran!!). For those of less intellectual bent the school offeres such courses as Auto Shop, with actual hands on training in automobile repair (the school offered free "no gaurentees" repair to anyone who cared to risk thier car). And the "english" courses were literary critism courses like college english courses. I short a *well designed* curriculum *can* provide a good, useful, general education in public schools. And all of this at a far lower annual expense to my parents than at a private school. The *big* problem with not having publically funded schools is the *incredible* operating expense required for a good education. I would never have gotten such a good education if my parents had been required to pay for it out-of-pocket at a private school. > >If you accept my general characterization of what goes on in >public schools but feel that I have overlooked some value to >those endeavors, that too seems to be a coherent position and one >I'd like to hear. > >But in any case, I urge you to form an opinion on these issues. >They seem broad enough that those of us who are not experts in >the field can justifiably hold opinions. >And I guess that believing as I do suggests that one make noise >at one's local politicians or school board members. > >{teneron | teklabs}!reed!eric -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|burdvax|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen