Texas educators split over teaching English basics

[Michael Jason Teegarden]

> educational board members asserted their
> qualifications for making educational linguistic
> decisions, saying: "[We are] eminently qualified
> because, first of all, we're parents, we're
> businesspeople and we're taxpayers." 

I showed the article to one of my 11th grade English
classes this week.  The majority of those students
responded with mild to moderate outrage, decrying the
power of such a board of people to make such
decisions.  Most telling was one remark: "Nowhere in
their list of [self] qualifications is
'college-educated.'"

Sincerely,
Michael Teegarden

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