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Old 2010-03-29, 05:04 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by Kevin M View Post
You're right, this isn't worth making personal and I'm not interested in that either. But some of your statements about the people in education were very cynical and not true. The low pay of teachers right now pretty much guarantees that only people who really care about the profession actually move into it. My wife has dual BS degrees that worth be worth twice as much in a private field, but she really likes being a teacher. So the suggestion that public education fails because of the personnel involved is just not true. The main problem is that public education is such a political football, and a lot of people who aren't professional educators get to influence the system.
Heh, my cynical comments were simply based on the fact that I've been in a required curriculum department at the U for 10 years now, and I see a lot of different majors come through. I've met your wife, she is not my "typical education major". I believe that the public education failure is mostly due to letting government manage it - it does become the "political football" - and policy rarely is ever set by the on-the-ground personnel in any form of bureaucratic government (welcome to my world, actually). Oops, back to Spatial Analysis before the prof kills me.
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