Re:"It's the curriculum, stupid" -- 3 years at HTH
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I guess I see the fundamental need of exactly what you're saying; even the teachers and administrators needed to go to school to learn how to be teachers and administrators. You could, in a sense, presume that the labor pool in that spot was bad for the academic "essense" and in the very same stroke giving breath to the doomed idea of thinking teachers could teach students when the teachers themselves were students.
All in all, I'd blame it on the staffers. Who staffed those freakin' idiots anyhow? Where the accountability for that person? In my book, it would benefit all to seek independent evaluation of curriculum, budget and staff and fire all of the root administrators in the system, start over. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. I mean, jeez, the scenario you presented here was so pittiful and egregious that I haven't even heard of a public school being that bad in Arkansas or Kentucky.
You know, since everything is soon to be switching anyways, why not re-evaluate such operating systems as BeOS and Amiga 4 desktop or whatever it's called now...
I'm pretty sure those companies would be much more willing to play co-op and against microsoft than microsoft would co-op play with anybody else.
hope, rainbows, and pots of gold, and lephrechans named "little bastard"
here's why I think it's a good idea ...
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I live in Wichita, KS and I can tell you that this most recent move (seemingly) to a (possibly the?) $65M school of the future is a bit behind the times. Great concept, but "dude, that's a lot of cash." Some of you might already know that Wichita, KS is the "air capital of the world." Regardless of whether or not any of us is willing to go quite that far with that particular description of Wichita, everyone must know that the Wichita economy is driven by what I call "affective hit points." That basically means that Boeing, Cessna, Ratheon(Beechcraft), Learjet and Bombardier all rolled up are a big giant, living machine that requires a lot of resources and even more labor to utilize those resources and ultimately produce aircraft and related computer-intensive technologies ordered by players in the transcontinental to conduct yet greater still sizable resource and labor gobbling big giant, living machines.
But I digress...
What I'm really getting at is that a partnership was recently entered into by the city of Wichita and the aircraft companies as a committee, whereby a "school of the future" will be setup (and is near or already has reached, completion) that, hopefully, outputs enough qualified/skilled labor to meet the demands of industry here in town. Everyone got together and said, 'look, we gotta do something here -- the labor pool won't sustain our collective requirements' and since the companies are collectively so huge, that loosely translates into 'we need more cats here in town who know what they're doing with airplanes and computers and electronics and interior aircraft design, oh -- and a bunch of cats who know how to paint real good) me.' And up to this point, there has not been enough qualified help to run da bidnesses.
Maybe Bill Gates came to Wichita in a secret midnight rendezvous after realizing he had the exact same problem in his industry... most of which, undenialby, he has had a huge influence on to begin with...
Just some random thoughts... I really believe we've honestly gotten to the point that specialized education is a necessity, not a wish-list item.
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I guess I see the fundamental need of exactly what you're saying; even the teachers and administrators needed to go to school to learn how to be teachers and administrators. You could, in a sense, presume that the labor pool in that spot was bad for the academic "essense" and in the very same stroke giving breath to the doomed idea of thinking teachers could teach students when the teachers themselves were students. All in all, I'd blame it on the staffers. Who staffed those freakin' idiots anyhow? Where the accountability for that person? In my book, it would benefit all to seek independent evaluation of curriculum, budget and staff and fire all of the root administrators in the system, start over. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. I mean, jeez, the scenario you presented here was so pittiful and egregious that I haven't even heard of a public school being that bad in Arkansas or Kentucky.
You know, since everything is soon to be switching anyways, why not re-evaluate such operating systems as BeOS and Amiga 4 desktop or whatever it's called now ...
I'm pretty sure those companies would be much more willing to play co-op and against microsoft than microsoft would co-op play with anybody else.
hope, rainbows, and pots of gold, and lephrechans named "little bastard"
I live in Wichita, KS and I can tell you that this most recent move (seemingly) to a (possibly the?) $65M school of the future is a bit behind the times. Great concept, but "dude, that's a lot of cash." Some of you might already know that Wichita, KS is the "air capital of the world." Regardless of whether or not any of us is willing to go quite that far with that particular description of Wichita, everyone must know that the Wichita economy is driven by what I call "affective hit points." That basically means that Boeing, Cessna, Ratheon(Beechcraft), Learjet and Bombardier all rolled up are a big giant, living machine that requires a lot of resources and even more labor to utilize those resources and ultimately produce aircraft and related computer-intensive technologies ordered by players in the transcontinental to conduct yet greater still sizable resource and labor gobbling big giant, living machines. But I digress ...
What I'm really getting at is that a partnership was recently entered into by the city of Wichita and the aircraft companies as a committee, whereby a "school of the future" will be setup (and is near or already has reached, completion) that, hopefully, outputs enough qualified/skilled labor to meet the demands of industry here in town. Everyone got together and said, 'look, we gotta do something here -- the labor pool won't sustain our collective requirements' and since the companies are collectively so huge, that loosely translates into 'we need more cats here in town who know what they're doing with airplanes and computers and electronics and interior aircraft design, oh -- and a bunch of cats who know how to paint real good) me.' And up to this point, there has not been enough qualified help to run da bidnesses.
Maybe Bill Gates came to Wichita in a secret midnight rendezvous after realizing he had the exact same problem in his industry ... most of which, undenialby, he has had a huge influence on to begin with ...
Just some random thoughts ... I really believe we've honestly gotten to the point that specialized education is a necessity, not a wish-list item.