[Phys-L] Re: Another Shot Fired in the War Against Science.

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

Hi all-
        The fact is that some parochial school systems, particularly
many of the Roman Catholic persuasion, are in a financial bind.  Some of
their proponents, including those with fire in their bellies in promote
heir own faith, are trying to peersuade us that the parochial schools
are somehow superior to public schools.  As a generality, this is
unsupportable nonsense.  As a blow at a democratic society, it is
threatening.
        Welcome, Mr. Alito, with your documented attempts to make  your
choir-boy superstitions part of American law!
                                        Regards,
                                                Jack

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Rick Tarara wrote:

> > Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > <clip>
> >
> > "However, one of the aims of the current
> > Republicans is to destroy public education, by, for example, vouchers."
>
> I always love how people like BC seem to see inside the minds of those with
> whom they disagree.  The 'Republicans want to destroy public education' is
> just outlandish, and quite frankly, is a crack-pot statement.
>
> Should we now conclude that the 'liberal/progressive' educational leaders of
> the 70's were aiming to lower the academic abilities of students, to lower
> the reading and critical thinking skills of young people to the point where
> they would have to rely on their favorite movie star or rock star to do
> their political thinking for them?
>
> Might it be that today, as then, the goal is to improve education so that
> the students graduate with the ability to be productive members of the
> society?  That is, after all, why taxpayers are 'willing' to pay for
> education.  Now going 'back to basics' and statewide objective testing may
> not end up being any more effective than open classrooms, unstructured
> curriculum, new math, cooperative/collaborative learning, or any of the
> other dozens of educational movements that have come, gone, probably come
> again, and gone again.  However, to impugn the motivations of those
> supporting today's attempts to get our educational system back under control
> and back to doing its job, is just politically motivated and ultimately
> empty rhetoric.
>
> Rick (who feels that no educational reform can be truly effective without
> social reform that returns stability to the family unit.)

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