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Subject: Re: those evil educators
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At 12:21 PM 12/13/02 -0800, Meredith Jaffe wrote:
>As a teacher in a public school, I find the following
>pretty offensive:
>
>"In reality it's really necessary for parents to
>become involved because most administrators
>are taught in college that their students are unruly
>young people who don't know anything (thus the need to
>"educate" them...how else can a teacher justify
>their holier than thou attitude?) and so students
>comments and input are generally ignored. "

Good call!  Thank you for speaking up.

> From Jaime's mom, it certainly does sound like this
>particular principal isn't taking the students' input
>into consideration.  But there also is the possibility
>that she sees other opportunities for her students to
>play sports and prefers to spend limited funding on
>the arts.  (Although that doesn't make it right that
>there is a boys' team but not a girls' team.)

Actually, from what I understood, there aren't any competitive teams at the 
school, and Jaime's mum is trying to organize a boys'/co-ed team.

Hockey fanatic though I am, I think that if I were in charge of deciding 
how to distribute the limited resources of a high school (not just money, 
but also teacher supervision time), I would lean towards supporting 
activities which are not available in the community and/or which could be 
done without much money from the individual families.  There is so much 
community hockey for teenagers in Ontario (recreational and competitive, 
girls'-only and boys' teams which include girls) that high school hockey is 
just a bonus - mostly for the same kids who are already playing on 
community teams.

Louise


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