[Rhodes22-list] Re: Swing States

[Steve Alm]

Hank,
Thanks for your comments but you have me confused with the other Steve
(Horrors!)  I guess it's hard to keep straight when two Steves are going
back and forth.  So I'll quit for now.  Besides, it must be five O'clock
somewhere.  And the other Steve is probably ducking out early on a Friday.
8-)

Slim

On 10/29/04 2:23 PM, "Hank" <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Slim,
> 
> What are you talking about?  No way would I work the schedule of my
> son's kindergarden teacher.  She is at the school everyday no later
> than 7am and is available until between 5 and 5:30 everyday.  I
> guarantee you she puts in more hours per YEAR than most of us 9-5ers
> ever thought about.
> 
> Hank
> 
> 
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:09:35 -0700 (PDT), Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Slim
>> Come on, The teacher are not that busy.  They don't
>> even work a full day anymore.  Testing is part of
>> thier job.  If they were doing thier job; there would
>> not had been a need in the No Child Left Behind law.
>> The reason this country had to pass an accountability
>> law was to let the school system know that if you
>> don't start teaching the kids; you will lose you
>> school.
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> --- Steve Alm <salm at mn.rr.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Until teacher go back to
>>>> teaching; this country will have an education
>>> problem.
>>> 
>>> Steve, Right - the teachers are so busy with testing
>>> they don't have time to
>>> teach.
>>> 
>>> Its the
>>>> teachers that need to go to work.  That is what
>>> will
>>>> fix the education problem.
>>> 
>>> Wrong - the teachers are hard at work.  If you don't
>>> believe that, try
>>> walking a mile in those shoes.  It's the parents
>>> that need to go to work.
>>> Research studies have clearly shown that students
>>> who's parents value the
>>> education of their kids enough to nurture it succeed
>>> even with
>>> less-than-stellar teachers.  Conversely, students
>>> who's parents don't care
>>> enough to even feed their kid breakfast in the
>>> morning are going to have
>>> many problems even with the very best teachers a
>>> pittance can buy.
>>> 
>>> Slim
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --- stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> thanks Steve, but since I do not use drugs I am
>>> not
>>>>> tuned into this bill -
>>>>> but Elton studied it and he says it is a disaster
>>>>> 
>>>>> we have all come to the conclusion re the dumbing
>>>>> down of America.  99% of
>>>>> the youngsters I interview for jobs do not know
>>> how
>>>>> many 1/8ths of an inch
>>>>> are in an inch.  My understanding is that the
>>>>> problem with the bipartisan
>>>>> education efforts is that the promised funding is
>>>>> not there (understandably
>>>>> with war and tax cuts) to back up the paper
>>>>> promises.
>>>>> 
>>>>> stan/gbi
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>>>>> To: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>; "The Rhodes 22
>>> mail
>>>>> list"
>>>>> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:53 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Swing States
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Stan
>>>>>> Bush gave the liberal a Prescription Drug
>>> benefit
>>>>> that
>>>>>> the Democrats had been promissing you all for
>>>>>> generations.
>>>>>> ]
>>>>>> What more can you ask for.  He has already did
>>>>> more
>>>>>> for the Democrats than the democrats have done
>>> for
>>>>> 30
>>>>>> years.  He let Kennedy write the education bill
>>> if
>>>>> I
>>>>>> remember right.
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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