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Originally Posted by ScottyS
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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Ah, I've been talking about K-12 mostly. As I led with in this thread, college is totally different, and I agree that the salaries and the research opportunities attract a lot of people who aren't really that dedicated to the product they turn out. Also, for K-12 educators, I'd say my wife actually is pretty close to the typical. At least for ones still young enough not to have been totally crushed by the system.
