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Old 11-09-2012, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by pmacdaddy View Post
Interesting article, but isn't Finland's population roughly equal to Queens east to end of Long Island? And their poverty rate is less than half of our suburbs.

I really like their approach vs standardized testing. I know they have a teacher's union, but it would take a near revoloution here for this to fly- "If a teacher is bad, it is the principal's responsibility to notice and deal with it."
that's how it should be. bad teachers should be handled the same way as any other employee who isn't cutting it.
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