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» Dumbing down education   2006-09-02 21:32 Strawman

>> Parents are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves whether they want to
>> employ a particular teacher and at what rate.

Thumbing through manual on management (mostly to pick up good platitudes to regurgitate during those excrutiating management meetings), I came upon this little gem:

If you can't measure performance you can't manage it.

Apparently the government is the exception to the rule. They can bring us the best possible education our money can buy with no qualitative metrics at all. We know this - the teachers union told us.

Mere parents armed with the choice of school, teacher, or learning methodology couldn't possible make such a good decision. I mean - after all, they are only parents, aren't they?


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