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In reply to the discussion: Public Education [View all]LWolf
(46,179 posts)23. My appreciation to Madflo, always,
and to you, as well, for a supportive post.
As someone who's spent a lifetime in public school classrooms, I'm there to:
1. Love them, and to make sure that their experience in public school, while in my classroom, is as positive as I can make it.
2. Give them abundant opportunities to learn, and support them while they do so.
3. Share my life-long love of learning, of reading, and of thinking with them.
4. Send them on with the ability to discern, to analyze, to apply, and to make informed choices about their lives.
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"current “war on teachers” (especially the war on teachers’ unions) is actually a war on democracy"
madfloridian
Sep 2014
#3
It sounds a lot like the old argument about the value of a liberal arts education....
femmocrat
Sep 2014
#4
Congress is not to informing, its to be informed by its electorate. They operate on our will....
marble falls
Sep 2014
#8
Great post and thread. I graduated high school in 1965, when Civics was still required to graduate.
mountain grammy
Sep 2014
#29
That public education is not a fundamental Constitutional right is one of the founders' greatest
ancianita
Sep 2014
#30