Dick Borrell Rebuttal
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Question 1: Many alternatives to the existing education
system have been proposed; including charter schools, vouchers and private
sector involvement. Do you favor any of these approaches, or do you
have specific proposals to strengthen the current system?
Remember, with technology comes progress!
The MEA and the State of Minnesota need to look ahead to the day in the not so
distant future when our children will be self taught on their self paced,
interactive play/learning stations. My daughter, Kelly, taught herself to
type in second grade! When her 3rd grade class started keyboarding she was
doing 65 word/minute! Note: No state licensed teacher was necessary for her
to learn and excel.
In current dollars we are spending over $6,600 per student for 850,000
students in public education. Try that math without a calculator! Technology
can and will save the state hundreds of millions of dollars educating our
children. All we have to do is help develop the programs, standards,
measurements and accountability. It seems to me that our democratic friends
want to spend more money and create more programs and paperwork. It doesn't
have to be that way
Teachers and administrators might be a source to fill the worker shortage in
our wonderful, growing state economy. Just some future food for thought.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still for public education, it just doesn't have to
look the way it has in the past. We will succeed as a society if we are
willing to change and adapt.
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