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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Merit pay
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- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <Jan15.222130.17719@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <00727506198@elgamy.jpunix.com> <1993Jan21.161440.936@varian.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:41:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.161440.936@varian.com> susan@csbvax.uucp (Susan Finkelman) writes:
- >In article <00727506198@elgamy.jpunix.com> elg@elgamy.jpunix.com (Eric Lee Green) writes:
- >>The problem is: what does a teacher do when s/he is handed these kids, told
- >>"Here, these kids are 4th graders, they learn 4th grade math" -- and the
- >>kids can't reliably do subtract with borrow and are at a loss when it comes
- >>to place value? What about the two kids in my class who can't even add and
- >>subtract without counting on their fingers, putting sticks on their paper,
- >>or some other counting method?
-
- >And what does a parent do when she tries to get her child to give up
- >the counting aids in the 2nd grade and again in the 3rd grade and is
- >told by the teachers that the children will be using them in school until
- >the fifth grade if the children would like to? We teach our kids at
- >home and use the school for childcare as we both must work. Something
- >is wrong here...
-
- You have stated it well; all the schools do even moderately well is
- child care, and we have also seen that they do not even do that well.
- Would you send your children to a child care center which allows some
- of them to beat up others?
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- How much should "teachers" who can only do child care be paid?
- --
- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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