Open Thread Wednesday

I’d be the first person to get behind the notion that America’s education model is in need of a complete overhaul. Yes, smaller classes would be a part of that.

And now for a nautical analogy: if there’s a big ship that runs inefficiently, but it’s available for everyone to ride (across the sea to the shining port city known as “Education”), isn’t it better to pool resources and rebuild its engine according to already widely available R&D than to create luxury lifeboats for the elites to steal away on, causing the ship to rust through and drown everyone left aboard?

It’s not safe to assume that everyone in Brooklyn Heights can afford to homeschool their kids, by the way.

As for exposure to “drugs and violence”, my personal feeling is that education isn’t about shielding children from those realities, but providing them with the tools with which to negotiate them responsibly (i.e., learning conflict resolution, learning how to care for one’s own body, learning how to make responsible decisions, etc.).

My wife and I spent $40, including tip for two bowls of ramen. Pretty big servings.

Well neighbor, although I’m in my 39th year of teaching, I’m rendered “speechless”. Your post speaks for itself. Great use of the word “tomography” though.

Hanco on Montague has sells a bowl of Pho for $10 with meat and veggies.

I had to google that one, and wasn’t disappointed.

Ramen noodles “upscale”
P.T. Barnum was right…

That location is cursed. Over-and-out.

There’s this chef named David Chang who has explored the full spectrum of “scale” in Asian noodles. If you catch his mesmerizing TV show, Mind of a Chef, you might discover that noodles above packaged Ramen level aren’t just a flight of fancy for trendy suckers.

Well, you came off kind of haughty by shooting down my Hanco’s example, to your question. by implying that it’s somehow ‘not in the same league’. I disagree, Hanco’s uses fresh quality ingredients and the environment is not offensive.

http://brooklynbridgeparents.com/final-ps-8-and-ps-307-rezoning-proposal-published/

I don’t have the info on me, it’s at home. If I remember I’ll let you know.

“other, often smaller, ships rush to the scene, off loading passengers without regard to cabin class.”

Yes, *ALL* passengers. The solution(s) to our school situation has to work without leaving some students stranded. My observation has been that innovations that respond by creating alternate routes, rather than by improving existing ones, historically serve populations along class lines. With regard to our education model, it doesn’t help that schools depend on so much funding from local property taxes; I understand this means that schools in poor areas don’t receive the fancy gizmos that scientists say are so helpful with learning, they don’t get funding for higher teacher pay in order to attract talented educators, etc.

If you were to have a child at PS8 that you pull out in favor of a small homeschooling group, how would you make sure that kids weren’t being stranded in a failing public school?

Wish I knew – was our favorite in the hood. It was often empty until late and the lean on the very expensive Sunday gravy special probably did them in – in other words not an all-day kind of place; despite crowds.

Huh? Wasn’t Eamonns knocked down? I heard a burger place was moving into the GC space…

Lol. Upscale? Relally? You r either the owner or investor…