Why shouldn't such quotes be included in our range of knowledge?  Just
ignoring serious problems like this one does not in any way promote the
deliberations and exchanges of this group.  If the quote is seriously
off-base, the experiences of the members will discount it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca S. Wheeler [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:57 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Blue cheese


I strongly object to the insulting tenor of this posting. This style of
self-expression does not befit our work as teachers/scholars.

If this sort of posting persisted, I would suggest that this list become
moderated, so to assure the caliber and integrity of the postings.


In concern,


Rebecca Wheeler



Robert Reis wrote:




[2] For instance, school superintendents as a class are virtually the
stupidest people to pass through a graduate college program, ranking 51
points below the elementary school teachers they normally "supervise," (on
the Graduate Record Examination), and about 80 points below secondary school
teachers; while teachers themselves as an aggregate finish seventeenth of
twenty occupational groups surveyed. The reader is of course, at liberty to
believe this happened accidentally, or that the moon is composed of blue,
not green cheese as is popularly believed.

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