"Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink"
--?
He then learns that in going down into the secrets
of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of
all minds.
--Emerson
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition
means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not
work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not
obey shall not eat.
--Leon Trotsky, 1937
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 19:38:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lori Sodorff <sodo8711@uidaho.edu>
To: Robert Probasco <rcp@uidaho.edu>
Subject: Re: schools@moscow.com
l. kay (I'll be there with bells on) sodorff-henson
sodo8711@uidaho.edu
Moscow, Idaho
letters and Sci.
Math/music
"Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink"
--?
He then learns that in going down into the secrets
of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of
all minds.
--Emerson
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition
means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not
work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not
obey shall not eat.
--Leon Trotsky, 1937
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Robert Probasco wrote:
> I, too, am very displeased with the Moscow public schools. We seem to be
> in that uneviable state where the status quo is protected, and progressive
> thinking is discouraged. Can the ballot box provide some benefit?
> Bob
I am not exactly sure whether that will help or not. I was just reading
something in the paper that was talking about the rules for Idaho Public
Education and it said there are something like 1,500. Aparently they are
supposed to be reduce to half of that or something in that vicinity.
There has to be a way, aside from voting, to make changes in our school
systems ajenda and style of teaching. I know there are good teachers out
there, but........
Perhaps Idaho should follow Washington and require a masters degree in
education as a prerequisit to hire.
I also feel that the huge downsizing in the music department, i.e. string
intruments and vocal, has been a negative response to our communities
children and their need to express themselves.
I understand that computers and the ability to be able to use them with
some kind of mastery is important to their future, but finding an outlet
for so forth are necessary for their frustration and creativity is too.
Our children have become a generation of video game and t.v. junkies. Or,
they do nothing but hand out with their friends and try to think of ways
to counter their boardom. Some smoke pot, some smoke crack, some use
crank, some use halusenogens, some have sex with whom/whatever, some
shoplift and even some do all of the above.
Granted their are children who still stay in the hub of their family
units, but that percentage is growing smaller and smaller, not because
parents don't try and do what is right for their children, but because
children just simply don't care. We are losing them to the streets.
I think that a major cause of this is the extreme standard of public
education that are being pushed. Children are not robot's they are
people. Young people trying as we are to find their way in this world. A
world far different from the one their parents came to fruition in.
Somehow, someway, something BIG, SOMETHING REALLY BIG, has got to happen
to help our children.
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Lori Sodorff wrote:
>
> > perhaps I am still subscribed and I just thought I wasn't for the very
> > reason that you mentioned.
> >
> > It is unfortunate that there is such a lack of concern in a town of this
> > size for it's young people and how their lives are being developed in the
> > public school system.
> >
> > As I am a recipient of the education that school dist. 281 has to offer, I
> > have to say it SUCKS. unless of course you are an overachiever and
> > self-motivated. If you fit into either of these categories then you will
> > probably benefit from this districts education, if not well then your out
> > in the cold, and will have to learn to sink or swim or simply muddle
> > through.
>
>