Matt W. Barrow wrote:
"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:30:56 -0500, Margy Natalie
wrote:


It's not the schools its the parents.


Umm...the parents that came though public schools?



I've seen parents come in to find
out why the TEACHER made a mistake and Johnny got a B.

My wife's a dedicated teacher. I hear it every day. 8^(


And the teachers that have been telling parents, for years now, to "Shut
up...we're the experts" hasan't had an effect?

I remember when they gave teachers the same tests they were giving their
students, the teachers failed...miserablly.

I have, though, been to my kids school to ask the teacher why a science
question was a single sentence 115 worlds long, and why a friend of our,
with an MS degree from Princeton, could not figure out the problem.

That's just ONE instance.
Those are good parent questions, and they should be asked. The ones
that are not good are the ones that question poor grades even if the kid
didn't come to school, didn't do the make up work, didn't do homework
and flunked the test. Then the teacher gets in trouble because the kid
failed.

Dedication is nice, but that's about all - it will not give students even an
ounce of knowledge or ability to comprehend the world.