[thechat] Fucked Up US Educational System.

[Ben Dyer]

On 02:06 PM 1/29/2002, Joe Crawford said to me:
>Fact is, education is fucked up royally in the USA. Mediocre and
>(underfunded|spends money stupidly|both) and bedrocked on a conception
>of education that is more 19th Century that 21st. The whole system needs
>to be gutted and remade, because it's clearly broken.

I was just hunting around and I found this:

<http://www.window.state.tx.us/tspr/dallas/ch01d.htm>

A little window into how screwed up the Dallas Independent School District
is...especially the first and last charts.

Mike Moses, the current superintendent, was replacing Bill Rojas in 2001,
who pulled down $260K/yr. and did squat (except hire all his buddies for
exorbitant salaries), who replaced Yvonne Gonzalez in 1999, who was
sentenced to federal prison for embezzeling $16,000 in district funds, who
replaced...

--Ben


Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/

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