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Education

Smarmie Doofus

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2. If we've learned nothing else over the last 15 years it's that we have to keep....

Reply to Igel (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 14, 2015, 10:44 AM

Mar 2015

.... lawyers and politicians as FAR AWAY FROM THE CLASSROOM as possible.

There has to be something akin to Jefferson's Wall of Separation doctrine in place. It's a bit tricky, since public schools are... in a sense... "government schools" and therefore the government has an OBLIGATION to see that they are run effectively.

The paradox is that they cannot be run effectively if government ( politicians) imagines itself to have some actual expertise in education..... which any good teacher can assure them... is a lot more complicated and nuanced than the politicians and lawyers will ever understand.

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They had a lot of help. Igel Mar 2015 #1

If we've learned nothing else over the last 15 years it's that we have to keep.... Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 #2