[extropy-chat] Re: Home-schooling

[Spike]

> At 05:52 PM 1/21/2004 -0700, Alan Eliasen wrote:
> 
> >They had a breakdown of GRE scores by intended major and, by  far,
the 
> >lowest-scoring group was education.  That was sad, and indeed creates
a 
> > self-defeating cycle...

Is this surprising?  Teaching is a *terrible* way to
make a living in so many ways.  If the low pay isn't
enough to dissuade one, consider the ever-increasing
liability of working with children.  Do you suppose
that kids are failing to pick up on the notion of
the lawsuit lottery?  How easy it is to get a free 
ticket?  All they need to do is arrange to be alone 
with *any* teacher, especially a male one, then accuse 
him of molestation.  Exactly *no* penalty if the scheme
doesn't work, and a good chance they will give the student
a few score K-notes to go away, far cheaper than an
extended legal battle.  What a great scam!  This on top
of psychologists causing their patients to bring up
memories of stuff that never happened.  Teachers would
be highly vulnerable to these kinds of attacks, resulting 
in their reputations being permanently destroyed.

It is scandalous that schools do not have security
web cams running 24-7 to protect the teachers.  Without 
them, most schools are just too dangerous.

spike