One big favor from the two tickets…STAY OUT OF EDUCATION! Every 4 years we have to tolerate the pontificating by both clueless Parties as to how they are going to really really really reform education. Of course the real real real reform means tens of billions more to get the same results.
As one who was […]

Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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June 26 12:45pm CST:
Am listening to a NY-Bronx radio talk show caller (of black-hispanic parents) who was fired as an English teacher for correcting improper speech. He was chastised as being hurtful, judgmental, ego-deflating and other terms of modern liberalism. Such is the administration of schools today. Spineless liberals lacking common sense. God help the […]

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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EDUCATIONAL DECAY
Comments excellent also…but the root causes are what folks are in denial about…seems too late… systemic rot..

Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday……..
In a report on graduation rates around the country, the EPE Research Center and the America Promise Alliance also showed that the high school […]

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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LEGISLATURE (still) CLUELESS ON EDUCATION
Here the Mississippi legislature goes again (like many other states) looking for the “strawman” responsible for stagnant low “test scores”.
This time its “frame the Superintendent”. Framing teachers started decades ago.
Permit me, after over 30 years in the classroom, to enlighten all politicans (state and federal) as to the ignored root problem.
The […]

Posted on March 18th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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The Bottom Line(s) (retired teacher)
The problems of education synthesized from being in the classroom from 1969-2004:
1. Sorry parents who want happy kids (hourly)… a “C” for showing up, etc.
2. Modern liberalism’s viral infection of the culture (victim worship for starters)
3. The lower standards-free (due to liberal guilt) pass for minorities (now drifted down to all […]

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D.
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