@wandeljw,
Quote:Consider that the education board has the authority to steer Texas public schools " including your public school " to greater success with its power to set academic standards and curriculum, choose textbooks, make policies and manage the $22 billion Permanent School Fund.
But wande, the case is just the same for the other 49 states is it not. "Success", which the EDITORIAL BOARD have not troubled themselves to define, is measured by a comparison with those other states.
Who is to know what tactics should be employed to ensure being top of the league table? The EB has the same problem that the football supporter has who thinks he can do a better job than the coach despite not having been chosen to be the coach who has to choose plays and manage the budget.
Who is to say that a high teenage pregnancy rate is a good or bad thing? Certainly, in racehorse breeding early foals command a premium at auction despite what the respectable ladies of the salons of the north-eastern states might think and evolution theory supports the "infusoria" being introduced to female organisms at the earliest opportunity right across the board.
The EB is self-evidently very confused on this matter in seeking to suggest that teenage pregnancy is somehow not respectable or advantageous and shows itself to be infused with doctrines derived from Christian morality.
With such incoherent drivel being the result of, presumably, careful cogitation one might easily suspect that "cronyism" is the guiding principle determining the selection of the members of the EDITORIAL BOARD which, it is worth reminding readers, has no need to submit itself to the consideration of the voting public.
Would not high drop-out rates help to ensure that certain occupations are fully staffed because it is difficult to imagine that if all the students qualified for exposure to the higher learning (see Thorstein Veblen) they will hardly expect to join the ranks of road menders, sewage workers, cow punchers, gas pumpers, dish washers etc etc and thus large numbers of immigrants will be required to deal with the **** created by millions of upthrusting, well-paid executive types, scientists, lawyers and members of editorial boards etc etc.
The Austin Statesman is owned by Cox Enterprises which owns 13 dailies, 28 weeklies, 15 TV stations and 86 radio broadcasters operating all over the USA. It is a private company 98% controlled by Anne Cox Chambers, an octogenarian, and the 2 children of her late sister, Barbara Cox Anthony. The chairman is her son, James C. Kennedy.
Cronyism with the gas pedal flat to the boards I would think wande.
Cox Enterprises is originally out of Dayton, Ohio where it was run by a Democratic candidate for the 1920 presidential election. It is now based in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Do you mind wande--this is supposed to be a science thread and not a vehicle for the dissemination of second hand and third rate propaganda.
