Re: Here's someone on our side :o)

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:59:34 +0100, D.M. Procida wrote:

I am *in* business, and have been for many years.

Part-time work? I mean how do you have the time if you are just starting
on a teaching career or is it the teaching that's part-time?

I just don't think that it deserves to have a say in education, just as
I don't think it should have a say in health policy, or environmental
policy. I don't think that is such an unusual position, however
flabbergasting you may find it.

I can't speak for health or environment but I'd say it is a very unusual
position to hold with respect to education which is a different sector -
you keep telling me not to go off at a tangent so maybe you could obey
your own rules ;-).

Your views are certainly different from most teachers I have known and I
have visited literally hundreds of schools over the years. It would
certainly be unusual for business people or parents to hold such views or
even students. The main political parties all take the view that business
involvement in education is reasonable so that doesn't leave many people.
If you had said that business should have limited or less say then fair
enough, but no say whatsoever is indeed a very unusual and extreme
position which is why I queried if it was what you really meant.

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Ian Lynch
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www.opendocumentfellowship.org
www.schoolforge.org.uk
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