Please lets not get started on underpaid teachers!
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From: "Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@comcast.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:25 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] off-base comment
>
> Bill...I'm flagging you on the following comment:
>
> My favorite example is
> ADD/ADHD for simple misbehavior. Of course it takes
> a PhD in Education to dream up those new terms! ;-)
> Little wonder our schools are dumbing down while we
> spend their resources for such nonsense. 73, Bill W4ZV
> -0-
>
> In point of fact, recognizing that some kids have problems,
> whether we exactly identify the source of them or not is
> irrelevant.....but it IMPROVES education, not diminishes it,
> when we correctly treat them.
>
> How many of us where super-bored smart kids, who drove their
> teachers crazy? It's possible that a lot of us were (and are)
> adhd.
>
> My wife teaches special ed. There's a lot here that you don't
> understand. And it's definitely off-topic for this reflector,
> despite the fact that I think it's good social discourse.
>
> Just to be contentious, I will expand the comment thusly: If teachers
> were paid the same per hour as plumbers...society would have far different
> drainage problems.
>
> Sorry Steve...I won't prolong this further.
>
> 73/n2ea
> jimjarvis@ieee.org
>
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