pet peeve

[rm]

Misuse of the word censorship. It's not censorship when a company doesn't want to buy your poorly written articles. Nor is it censorship when a company has guidelines about what type of content you can distribute through its mechanism. You may find the decision making process, taste, rules, guidelines or philosophy of the company disagreeable or abhorrent and they may even have a political or social agenda, but IT'S NOT CENSORSHIP!

Meanwhile, the "boy crisis" is bullshit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR2006040702025.html

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Huh, I thought this part was interesting:

"The Department of Defense offers a better model. DOD runs a vast network of schools on military bases in the United States and abroad for more than 100,000 children of service members. And in those schools, there is no class and race gap. That's because these schools have high expectations, a strong academic focus, and hire teachers with years of classroom experience and training (a majority with master's degrees). Of course, this solution costs money, and has none of the sex appeal of the trendy single-sex-school quick fix."

The quote leaves something out.

[haya.livejournal.com]

The military school system tends to keep it's class sizes much smaller than standard public schools.

Also, the bases tend to function like small towns, so if a child is disruptive, it can be a reflection on the parents.
That increases the parents' participation.

Add that often the military spouse may not be able to maintain a steady job, so they are more available.

Re: The quote leaves something out.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

My spouse teaotter was in such schools until she was 10 and remembers them quite fondly. Her parents were fairly poor and she remembers far less emphasis on social class and far more focus on achievement than when she left them for ordinary public schools. I think there are definitely things to be learned from such schools that do not involve vileness like school uniforms or highly problematic ideas like gender segregated classrooms.