Comments on: ‘By any means necessary’ http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/by-any-means-necessary/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andy Freeman http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/by-any-means-necessary/#comment-45719 Andy Freeman Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:12:23 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8560#comment-45719 > I teach math in a rural school district that offers no alternative other than cyberspace. While that district may not offer alternatives, that doesn't tell us whether it's impossible to offer alternatives. Is there more than one car dealership in the area served by that district? Is there more than one grocery store? I ask because it doesn't take many kids to support two schools. Given that, competition is a matter of letting parents choose between them. > I teach math in a rural school district that offers no alternative other than cyberspace.

While that district may not offer alternatives, that doesn’t tell us whether it’s impossible to offer alternatives.

Is there more than one car dealership in the area served by that district? Is there more than one grocery store?

I ask because it doesn’t take many kids to support two schools. Given that, competition is a matter of letting parents choose between them.

]]> By: mike curtis http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/by-any-means-necessary/#comment-45718 mike curtis Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:58:59 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8560#comment-45718 Vouchers don't mean a thing if you have no place to spend them. I teach math in a rural school district that offers no alternative other than cyberspace. Personally, I embrace competition as a means to improve the product (quality education); but, in the face no competition, the public is dependent on my desire to do the best, or the least, that I can. Here, it doesn't matter if you are rich or poor. You have to rely on the professionalism of me and my peers. Vouchers don’t mean a thing if you have no place to spend them. I teach math in a rural school district that offers no alternative other than cyberspace. Personally, I embrace competition as a means to improve the product (quality education); but, in the face no competition, the public is dependent on my desire to do the best, or the least, that I can.

Here, it doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor. You have to rely on the professionalism of me and my peers.

]]> By: stacy http://www.joannejacobs.com/2009/04/by-any-means-necessary/#comment-45717 stacy Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:23:49 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/?p=8560#comment-45717 Politicans like Corey Booker (Mayor of Newark, NJ) and Adrian Fenty, and these guys are getting it right. They're putting the best interests of their constituents above the needs of the NEA. They'll continue to win elections as long as they're communicating with their constituents. More, more, more, more. Politicans like Corey Booker (Mayor of Newark, NJ) and Adrian
Fenty, and these guys are getting it right. They’re putting the best interests of their constituents above the needs of the NEA. They’ll continue to win elections as long as they’re communicating with their constituents. More, more, more, more.

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