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This is fascinating, but I suspect that the policies were practiced largely in the breach.

Just as the child prisoners in Guantanamo may be treated with reasonable decency by some of the guards, there is reason to expect that the students of yesteryear would be treated with decency by many of their teachers.

Remember, it is unlikely that you would find a teacher who would go for the job description

"Come get low pay in order to turn bright young children into mindless drones."

At the level of the individual, this policy is extremely hard to enforce.

At the same time, I have seen many very good teachers leave education due to complaints about the administration, and for some reason the willingness to coddle the union on tenure even for the deadest of wood persists.

So, perhaps there's some truth to it. It depends hugely on the behavior of the parents in their relationship with the local school board.

Good point, Jon. All I know about him technically is that his IP address is 67.66.179.214.

If that ain't a hint....

His machine name is adsl-67-66-179-214.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net.


Isn't someone getting a little obsessive? Geez, get a life.

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