![]() ![]() He has a few good points within the book, but I'm disappointed that what is supposed to be an intellectual argument relies so heavily on sensational, fact less claims and overgeneralizations. How, then, does my life where both husband and wife work but kiddo spends all day with grandma and grandpa fit into that equation? Really? Every single one of your students? How do you know that? He also said that double-income families are ruining our children, along with the lack of inter-generational interaction. ALL his students watch too much TV and it's ruining them. It also bothered me that he made such generalized, sensational statements. And there are as many different school environments are there are different schools in the country. ![]() Those are two completely different worlds. I have a hard time believing that a New York City educator understands ANYTHING about the kind of education I had - in rural Montana, where we had one school district for our entire town (and the ranch and reservation kids were bused in) and I graduated with 83 people. I also have a problem with someone who spent his whole career in New York school systems making broad sweeping statements about public education in general. (Like maybe we're not bright enough to follow along with typical 12 point print?) And I had to laugh when I opened the book and the print was freaking 18 point. First of all, it's not so much a book as a group of essays. ![]()
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