[geeks] Education

Gregory Leblanc gleblanc at linuxweasel.com
Mon Sep 26 23:08:06 CDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:49 -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> >From: William Enestvedt <William.Enestvedt at jwu.edu>
> >Date: Mon Sep 26 08:32:35 CDT 2005
> >To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> >Subject: Re: [geeks] Education
> 
> >I gasped when I saw:
> >>
> >> 1. "Feel good" education.  Can't have the student tramatized.  Can't
> >> give too much homework, can't grade with a red pen...
> 
> I've not seen a teacher afraid to give too much homework...
> 
> What I want to know is what happened to Lunch, Study Hall, and Recess?
> My son gets 20 minutes for lunch (3rd grader) - and PE is like once a
> week (wasn;t it every day twenty/thirty years ago?).

Err, it was every day when I was in school, and that was, uhm, oh, dar,
like 18 years ago.  I think I'll go feel old in the corner now.
	Greg



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