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Dear Editor:
Another school year is upon us. With this comes the constant talk about school taxes, expenses, conditions, teachers’ pay rates, teachers’ experiences and backgrounds, student-to-school populations, and students’ abilities to learn, comprehend, and retain. I know that is a mouth full, but I still don’t believe that I have mentioned all that is associated with AND CONTROVERSIAL about yet another school year !
I wonder, “ Am I the only citizen who views our current school system AS A BUST AND A PROBABLE WASTE OF TAX MONEY ?? “ I truly believe, “ to instruct to the test “, in other words, to teach students in order to continue to pass these GLORIOUS equivalency tests is wrong, a waste of taxes, and even A FUNDAMENTAL WASTE OF THE VERY SCHOOL SYSTEM !
I also believe that it is a very wrong and dangerous practice of how our school system IS SEEMINGLY AN ACCEPTED WAY OF “WEEDING OUT THE BAD, SLOW, AND SOMETIMES IGNORANT; AND YET VERY-GOOD-AT-HEART STUDENTS ! The school system, in the U.S.A., MUST NOT become the accepted method of creating the working; “BLUE COLLAR”; class of citizens by seemingly catering to “THE WHITE COLLAR” class of citizens !
I have heard mention of very, very innovative suggestions of changing this school system in order to make it better, more fair, and more efficient ! Two of these very great ideas are to change the “so-called” equivalency tests AND to go to a four-day-school-week !
Granted, these changes are very different, BUT MODERN-DAY CITIZENS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO; I REPEAT, HAVE TO MAKE AND EMBRACE CHANGES-FOR-THE-BETTER !
T. Monroe Bledsoe
150 Cypress Drive
North Augusta, SC 29841
Phone: 803-278-6415
E-mail: usa1justice@aol.com
T. Monroe Bledsoe Bledsoe from North Augusta, SC
Tuesday, 08/26/08 16:58Dear Editor:
Another school year is upon us. With this comes the constant talk about school taxes, expenses, conditions, teachers’ pay rates, teachers’ experiences and backgrounds, student-to-school populations, and students’ abilities to learn, comprehend, and retain. I know that is a mouth full, but I still don’t believe that I have mentioned all that is associated with AND CONTROVERSIAL about yet another school year !
I wonder, “ Am I the only citizen who views our current school system AS A BUST AND A PROBABLE WASTE OF TAX MONEY ?? “ I truly believe, “ to instruct to the test “, in other words, to teach students in order to continue to pass these GLORIOUS equivalency tests is wrong, a waste of taxes, and even A FUNDAMENTAL WASTE OF THE VERY SCHOOL SYSTEM !
I also believe that it is a very wrong and dangerous practice of how our school system IS SEEMINGLY AN ACCEPTED WAY OF “WEEDING OUT THE BAD, SLOW, AND SOMETIMES IGNORANT; AND YET VERY-GOOD-AT-HEART STUDENTS ! The school system, in the U.S.A., MUST NOT become the accepted method of creating the working; “BLUE COLLAR”; class of citizens by seemingly catering to “THE WHITE COLLAR” class of citizens !
I have heard mention of very, very innovative suggestions of changing this school system in order to make it better, more fair, and more efficient ! Two of these very great ideas are to change the “so-called” equivalency tests AND to go to a four-day-school-week !
Granted, these changes are very different, BUT MODERN-DAY CITIZENS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO; I REPEAT, HAVE TO MAKE AND EMBRACE CHANGES-FOR-THE-BETTER !
T. Monroe Bledsoe
150 Cypress Drive
North Augusta, SC 29841
Phone: 803-278-6415
E-mail: usa1justice@aol.com
