[etni] Re: Panel proposes ideas for stanching school dropout rate
- From: sommer ben <sommerbtch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:31:56 +0000 (GMT)
Michele is of course absolutely right.
Classrooms of 40 students and chairs, 20 tables and a teacher teaching
frontally with a b/w board are ( simply and stupidly in terms of immediate
costs ) 'cheapest' of all.
You justify it by saying that everybody deserves to be 'ioni' - in the academic
stream.
This is dishonest sophistry.
It's like saying everybody deserves a holiday in France, and then throwing them
all off the white cliffs of Dover. Those who are natural or already good
swimmers make it.
A decent system would not have gutted the primary system with budget cuts
- rather it would have spent money to make sure that any child who fell behind
or had difficulties was helped while the educational gaps were just
beginning and mostly fixable.
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