For 10 or 15 years (1955-70) U.S. schools performed wonderfully (if you judge by realworld possiblity and not some fantasy of what schools should be). (Then and since there were the problems created by racism, but that is another issue.) Then the budget cuts begin, and have been continuous ever since, with attacks on teachers mounting and finally the No Child Left Unmolested Bush program and the Race to Perdition of the Obama Administration.
AND EVERY NEGATIVE REMARK ABOUT THE SCHOOLS, NO MATTER HOW INTENDED OR HOW ACCURATE WILL FEED INTO THIS WRECKING OPERATION.
SO LEFTISTS MUST LAY OFF THE SCHOOLS.
Carrol
Eric Beck wrote:
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> Alan Rudywrote: [clip]
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> I feel similarly uncomfortable with complaints about administrative
> costs. Not because I love million-dollar presidents and their endless
> expense accounts, but because if sacrifices are made to save on
> administrative costs, in the end it will be $35,000 secretaries and
> work-study students, not the Yudofs of the world.
>
> The problem with education -- at least in Texas -- is that states no
> longer funds education at the level it used to and should now. The
> neoliberal turn to robust administration is a symptom of that, not a
> cause.
>
> Of course I'm all for a Vebenian euthanasia of administrators. But if
> that's what we want, then let's really fucking go for it. The vague
> populist attack on administrators and salaries will only be felt lower
> down the food chain and won't essentially change the university; it
> will just make it more austere.
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