Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: signs of education standards
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:53:42 +1000
References: <CAE3QcF4jQ-FENqjz-5NJWO+3g7Z75ZB741D5YP6uLrW9se1+jw@mail.gmail.com> <F5905E5D-9494-4C7A-8D00-DE5A6BA5C300@chartermi.net> <892B34A2-8926-4512-88A3-82E0938284AE@embarqmail.com>

In the interests of full disclosure I believe that the school's street sign
shown in my *Just For Fun* snapshot is probably administered by the school
handyman ;-)

Cheers
Geoff

*Lighting- eyes- action*
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman

NO ARCHIVE



On 1 November 2011 10:45, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> His efforts would likely have been better spent if he had used that same
> effort to shrink classroom sizes so the teacher would not have found it
> necessary to write those letters at 11:30 at night because she had been up
> grading papers for several hours after most people's work hours.
>
> I'm sure the son maximized his learning with the respect he learned for
> his school from his father.
>
> For their long hours working for a numbing bureaucracy, serving marginally
> interested children, teaching for addled legislators who think regimented
> testing is an answer--they get this sort of appreciation.
>
> ric carter
> husband of a soon to be retired school teacher
>
> PS--many of those "corrections" expose a poor education in a previous
> generation
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Susan Ryan wrote:
>
> > My brother used to return his son's teacher's letters home with
> corrections to her spelling and grammatical errors.
>
>
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In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] IMG: signs of education standards)
Message from scoutfinch at chartermi.net (Susan Ryan) ([Leica] IMG: signs of education standards)
Message from ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] IMG: signs of education standards)