Re: "certain codes of conduct"

Posted by Edward Angel on
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Gary,

Does temporally past the age of direct involvement  imply we’ll be more involved when we’re 80? or 90?

Seriously though, I believe a lot can be accomplished by us old farts by being willing to get out of our comfort zones. A few years ago I would have never thought I’d be involved working with 4th-6th graders in the worst performing school in Santa Fe. But here I am making videos about CS ideas for the closed schools. Anyone who is willing to help can work with us through the SF Alliance for Science.

Ed
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On Jul 31, 2020, at 12:24 PM, Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]> wrote:

Well, you and Debbie are late bloomers.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 1:03 PM Frank Wimberly <[hidden email]> wrote:
Yep.  We are raising an 8 year old but he goes to private school. 

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:37 AM Gary Schiltz <[hidden email]> wrote:
Probably the reason K-12 underfunding isn't addressed much here has to do with the fact that the list is populated by a high proportion of us old farts and fartesses :-) who are temporally past the age of direct involvement with K-12 and kids in general. I suspect that the more politically left-leaning, as well as many of the centrist-leaning inhabitants would support significantly higher and more evenly distributed funding of K-12 public education. I would make the same claim for health care spending. Ultimately, a modern society depends on a well-educated, healthy citizenry, which the USA seems determined to make a luxury.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:11 AM Angel Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Nevertheless, what I see as the overriding issue that doesn’t get addressed on this list is the underfunding of public K-12 schools. Whatever position any of us might have as what we’d like to see at the college level, it isn’t going to happen with the present situation of the public schools.  As long as the public schools can’t provide an equal education for all its students, we can’t expect the colleges to solve the educational problem. 
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