Re: One Room Schools; Robbing the Cradle - St. and the Spartans

September 6, 2003

Hear, hear! Part of my early schooling was in a one room school in

the country. Aren't schools today top heavy with administration and

superintendents and overseers and politics and complexities?

In my day schooling was the basics; readin' writin' and arithmetic.

reading was based on phonics; writing was practice, practice,

practice, and arithmetic was memorize, memorize, memorize.

Several years ago I heard about a pilot program in a large city that

experimented with " going back to the basics. " The kids that came out

of that school had the highest IQs, highest reading scores, best math

tests, etc. of any other schools.

But teaching the basics doesn't require lots of administration. Is

there a message somewhere in this? Makes one wonder. When Alberta,

Canada cut funding to the schools, did they get rid of some top heavy

administration? No, they cut teachers.

Bee

>

> > In a message dated 9/4/03 12:31:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

> > heidis@t... writes:

> >

> > > I like it! Of course in an area like I live in, we wouldn't be

able to

> > > afford our school ... that is one problem with funding. The rich

> > > areas would get better schools.

> >

> > I say trash the schools. The better the schools get, the lower

the literacy

> > rate gets, so I don't see the point. Back in the day I'm talking

about,

> > school was one room, there was one teacher, and kids went to a

lot less of it. Yet

> > people were more literate and smarter.

>

> LOL!!!

>

> I say separate the schools from the state: http://www.sepschool.org/

>

> Science, Opiate of the Masses?

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