[Vision2020] Insulted

[Art Deco]

As a former Peace Corps Volunteer who taught successfully in facilities 
almost the same as those in which our local farmers house their cattle, I 
agree in part with Chasuk (below).

Of course facilities should be safe and equipped with the proper 
infrastructure for teaching the subjects relevant and necessary to our 
times.  They need not be more, however.

Chasuk believes that the quality of the education produced depends on the 
quality of the teachers.  It does.  And also on the enthusiasm of the 
teachers.

But it also depends on the quality of the students.  Student quality in turn 
depends on parents/guardians to a large extent.  Without enthusiastic 
parental/guardian support and participation in their children's/wards 
education, even quality teachers are at a disadvantage.

One of the advantages of the neighborhood meetings/alliance approach I 
suggested earlier is that it provides a mechanism to encourage continuing 
parental participation in and enthusiasm for their children's education.

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "Jack Porter" <jporter at moscow.com>
Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Insulted


>I went to 13 different schools before the 10th grade.  Some of the
> facilities were modern and new, some were decrepit.  I can't say that
> it made much difference to me as a student.  However, the quality of
> the teachers made a great deal of difference.
>
> What is it about our present facilities that are so awful that they
> need fixing?  My own children went to school locally, and they never
> once came home and complained about the buildings.  They did come home
> and occasionally complain about poor teachers.
>
> A new building isn't necessarily a better one.  I lived in a house in
> the UK that had been built in about 1535, and it was perfectly
> habitable.  They don't seem to have the compunction there to tear
> everything down just because it has gotten elderly.
>
> So are we being asked to fund new construction out of honest
> necessity, or just because our present facilities have gotten "old?"
>
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