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Re: Ideocosmology


I spoke to a supervisor at City College in this TOC
program, saying that we wouldn't dream of sending someone
with a 4th grade reading level in to teach elementary
school, but we send teachers with a fourth grade math
level in to teach elementary school all the time.

I suggested
that if we asked for an "alternative" English comp. course which we had
written and which was basically Spelling 101 they would scream bloody
murder. They didn't see the analogy.

I wonder if the authors of the above comments, about how we wouldn't dream
of doing the Spelling 101 and rudimentary readers to teach reading, aren't
being overly optimistic; I suspect a lot of the same thing occurs in those
subjects as well. Just a suspicion on my part.

Joel Rauber