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August 24, 2010
Educational Priorities
The purpose of the public school system is to pay bad teachers.
That is its first priority, it's first order of business. Now that isn't what they say their priority is, but if you look at what they do, they will do anything to avoid firing bad teachers. -- Jerry Pournelle
Posted by Vanderleun at August 24, 2010 10:33 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
The purpose public education is to produce mindless pod people the government can control.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at August 24, 2010 11:57 AM
Oops! The purpose of public education is to produce mindless pod people the government can control. Anyone try to have a conversation with someone who just graduated from high school? Impossible is the word that comes to mind.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at August 24, 2010 12:00 PM
Cilla, don't be so certain. When my graduate got a job out of high school and got socked with the pernicious local 'privilege tax' that confiscated all but 11 cents of her first check, she wept, and sees the government for the vultures that they are.
After 4 years of enduring racist comments by blacks and hispanics on the bus to school and then enduring the warped white guilt indoctrination tactics of her professors, nothing....nothing will break this woman's spirit. The government did a fab job teaching her....just not the lessons they'd hoped.
Posted by: Jewel at August 24, 2010 12:29 PM
Jewel, you are right. There are a few with the backbone to survive the public schools where the opposite effect is the outcome.
Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at August 24, 2010 1:13 PM
The purpose of most unions is to make it impossible to fire ANY union employee, no matter how egregious the offense or how poor the day-to-day performance.
Posted by: Uncle Jefe at August 24, 2010 1:14 PM
The purpose of public schools is increasingly to have a place to employ it's graduates.
Posted by: james wilson at August 25, 2010 7:13 AM