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Education

Reader Rabbit

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1. This will never work in the U.S., because there's no profit in it.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 09:10 AM

Dec 2012

Our system is designed so that hucksters can convince educators to buy new crap for the latest educational fad every 3-5 years. Each new educational fad requires the purchase of new teaching tools. Teachers use them for a few years, then a new "best practices" fad comes down the pike, and they have to buy materials to fit *that*.

Public education in the U.S. is The Sneetches, writ large.

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