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Re: Algebra Text Comparison (draft statement of purpose)
Posted:
Jun 29, 2009 5:44 PM
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> > Kirby,
<< SNIP >>
> Yes, and if you take the time to peak under the hood,
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... peek under the hood.
That's a spelling error I've made on more than one
occasion, as caught by John Brawley (aka "owner of
Audrey2 on Synergeo list).
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2009/06/about-algebra.html
is a repost of something recent here, with hyperlinks
and pictures, to better drive home where I'm coming from.
It's not the easiest game to "cede from the Union" on the
basis of wanting a better future for our kids, and that's
not really what we're up to exactly, but in terms of
"opting out" of what passes for "high school math" in most
states, that's really quite obligatory for us. We have
hungry employers to feed, and a shortage of talent wanting
to emigrate to a strange land called Portland, where it
rains incessantly and where CEOs have tattoos and nose
rings. In our parking lots, dusty sedans with
five-pointed pentacles say "Clergy", and they're running
Intel. Lots of high techies would rather stay in
Bangalore or whatever, not "work for the witches" (we have
lots of FOSS covens).
So.... given our responsibility to "train our own", please
understand why we're aggressive about needing that charter
school legislation. Please also understand are party line:
all public schools are charter schools, in the sense that
all were founded by charters.
It's just a matter of when and where, not the fact of
having a public mandate. That new schools should come
into existence is the privilege of every new generation
in a democracy, so it's hardly surprising that we have
LEP High, other academies, which march to a different
drummer in some respects. You'd expect that from an
adaptable culture, and a lot of folks here made it to
the end of the Oregon Trail, some time in their ancestry,
no mean feat really (others came from China...), when
you think about it.
We're really into trailblazing and pioneering. So I
suppose the motto might be: "don't hold us back". And
the good news: "you don't" i.e. our legislators weren't
born yesterday and understand about that "hand that feeds
you" thing, wouldn't want their own children to go
starving for knowledge, forced down that dreary
Youtubeless, calculator-infested road the other states
sucker for, only to end up on some "Donkey Kong Island"
like in that Disney cartoon (someplace "much worse than
Neverland").
I hope other states learn from our example, support the
formation of new charters, and don't practice over-
protectionism, giving malpractioners a free pass to keep
peddling that gruel. As William Bennett used to put it,
having such a deficient curriculum is like being attacked
by aliens (paraphrase), and losing (me adding). Reclaim
your heritage! Stand proud!
Kirby
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