Re: [Nolug] One Weekend Messing With Perl

On 12/21/08 23:03, Jeremy Sliwinski (mailing list account) wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Ok, so what is this private school that is so great that it can keep
>>> even gifted level and honors students engaged and interested? I'd
>>> love to believe there is a non-magnet school that can do that.
>>
>> St. Martins Episcopal, 30 years ago.
>
> That was 30 years ago.

But it does demonstrate that it *is* possible.

> Things, place, times and institutions change
> Ron. Folks I work with who went to Brother Martin 30 years ago say it
> is a different place. A high school I went to was different when I got
> there 9 years after my brother went to it and 6 years after my sister
> went to it. It is different from when I went there in 98.

And StM was radically different when I visited 5-6 years after I
graduated.

> Do you have an example of one that currently engages its students that
> well?

Well, no. I fear (but hope that I am wrong) that education as it is
currently implemented has sucked the life out of schools.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market
rates from eco-friendly organic farming cooperatives in Latin America.
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