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Originally Posted by GottaHerdOn
I'm glad someone else brought that up....
The Middle School philosophy is actually a great idea. Is it perfect? No. But it is bounds and leaps better than the Junior High method. Middle Schoolers are odd individuals, their bodies are at various stages of chemical and physical transformations and educating them IS NO EASY JOB. I've heard from many of my friends in the Edu. dept. Either you love middle school, or you hate it. I'm personally not a fan. I hated competing with raging hormones and pokemon to make time for social studies.
However, the current concept of a "middle school" is actually much better for that age group of students. They are treated still as elementary students emotionally, but given high school responsibilities. The proper set up of a middle school has the same grade's subjects clustered around each other and thematic units are practiced by the teachers and faculty.
Just thought I would point that out....
Also CT, I beg to differ that any highway being built in WV is a road to no where.
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By road to nowhere, I mean roads with limited traffic potential, not any slam against a place per se. The State continues to operate under the flawed philosophy that they can somehow create demand by merely offering something rather than responding to unmet demand already in evidence. They are building roads that offer little in the way of return on investment. Much of that money would be far better spent on higher education.
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