LEARNING: Critic writes an obituary
Imitating Post Falls, our Coeur d’Alene School District is teasing the idea of reducing the school week from five days to four. The excuse is a spurious claim that money will be saved, but the reason is much simpler. Administrators and teachers union bosses are trying to curry favor with those whom they have disappointed.
Our perennially over-budget public school district has willfully made our schools into places where no one wants to be. At every turn, the fashionable educational philosophies of school managers, education professors, grant writers and government bureaucrats have blighted the transmission of values, knowledge and skills to coming generations.
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