Bricks, mortar and learning (New building, new equipment, surveillance cameras)

USA Today ^ | February 6, 2008 | Patrick Welsh

[decimon]

Like many public school systems around the country, the school system in Alexandria, Va., where I teach has seen scores of education theories come and go like viruses. Aside from creating the illusion that school administrators have the latest secret to educating kids, the impact of these theories has been negligible and often counterproductive.

[wintertime]

ping

[Goldwater and Gingrich]

OMG a $100 Million school!

I see they are just scraping by.

They claim that better light make for better students and then this.

“stuffing students into schools has a dire effect on both discipline and learning, especially for low-income children”

Not one word about what is taught.

[decimon]

Not one word about what is taught.

Or learned. It would be interesting to see a follow-up on how well the students are learning.

[wintertime]

For all the talk about back to basics in reading and math, school boards and community officials must remember that the most basic component of education is the building — the physical environment — in which students spend anywhere from seven to nine hours a day.
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Gee!,,,and to think homeschoolers manage their outstanding success by learning at a kitchen table!

Also...Student spent up to 9 hours a day in school and possibly another 1 to 2 hours on a prison work gang bus (oops! “school” bus). Then there is one, two, or more hours of homework. Add is up. This is 11 to 13 hours a day.

So?....If teens sleep the recommended 9 or 10 hours, when do parents have this wonderful time to deprogram them of all the Marxist and Secular Humanist indoctrination they have been subjected to all day?

Answer: Parents don’t deprogram them. And, parents are foolish if they think they can.