tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post3253357044032401668..comments2024-03-29T06:21:22.494-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: NY Times: Education Gap Between Rich And Poor Growsreality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-46042129920305458232012-02-11T11:58:04.893-05:002012-02-11T11:58:04.893-05:00hey, why not leave ed policy to educators who work...hey, why not leave ed policy to educators who work in the schools and in the classroom? most all teachers i see are passionate, engaged and want to help. they have the education and expertise to know what works and doesn't. micro-managing by bureaucrats without any classroom time is like having lay people diagnose medical problems. school problems should be treated like a medical epidemic. we treat the symptoms but not the cause which is poverty and culture. good hygiene got rid of the plaque not moving people around. safe sex prevents disease not changing partners. it seems we are being controlled by the plutocrats.Rodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13295844185425383711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-16925589848436163642012-02-10T21:06:23.582-05:002012-02-10T21:06:23.582-05:00Who at all would be surprised by this. Bloomberg k...Who at all would be surprised by this. Bloomberg knows this. The politicians know this. My goodness, my father who received an education the equivalant of 5th grade growing up poor in Northern Italy and still speaks broken English would tell you this makes sense. The problem is that no one in the power structure wants to say it. It would mean addressing a problem so complex, so daunting very few if any people have realistic solutions to it. Individuals who take on problems such as socioeconomical issues or in this case the gap in education brought about by such issues on a grand scale do not come around every 10 years -they come around every century or so. The point being: no one has the balls to take on this issue for what it is. Easier to blame the teachers. Be well!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-82026396575690032762012-02-10T16:16:16.850-05:002012-02-10T16:16:16.850-05:00This should have been kind of a no-brainer in the ...This should have been kind of a no-brainer in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com