Re: Neal Boortz and Steve Jobs and Education...

Now here is what the right wing/business doesn't get about education. If Steve Jobs got a bad load of chips, what would he do? He'd send them back and get a credit or new chips. Unfortunately, public education has to make every one of those chips successful. We don't send our raw materials back to be replaced.

And as to Boortz, teacher unions really don't protect poor teachers. They provide "due process" in termination proceedings. The real problem in removing poor teachers is the administration. If an administrator provided the documentation necessary for termination, a union couldn't do much about the situation. The trouble is that education administrators stumble on the problem too late and don't want to do the work necessary to remove a teacher.

I don't think a union can be blamed for insisting that teachers have due process.

'nuff said...

I don't blame the unions either. Iblame apathetic parents who don't complain! My kids are both grown and have families of their own, but bothsay the teachers today, at least in the schools where their kids attend, are just LAZY! They don't even grade tests anymore! They have the STUDENTS check each others papers!

I know MY teachersdid that ONCE IN A WHILE, but no more than 3 times in an entire year!

Iwould be complaining very loudly to the darn school board!

The words are my response to Boortz.

As to teachers being lazy, I can only say that the teachers in my school work long hours and are very thorough. I think that we need a wider cross-section to make generalizations.

I've lived here for 7 years, andother that driving speed, I haven't seen anyone rushing to do anything yet!

around downtown at 50-60 miles per hour. People do drive fast. I would never recommend crossing a street without the light!

Without question, the driverson I85 and all it's connectors are the fastest and most careless of any I've encountered anywhere! I've driven on the LA freeways, almost all the Interstate highways in Tx, the beltway around DC, etc. None have compared to the interstate hwys in Atlanta!

HOWEVER...driving is the ONLY thing they do fast around here!