The Blueberry Story

Businessman Jamie Vollmer tells the story of one of the lessons he learned about his false assumptions concerning public schools.

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  Education

[MrMikiejon]

The children are all that matters. The analogy still stands. We are not producing a product and we cannot and do not want to reject any of the young people that come into our classroom. However, they are the primary factor in what we can do. We have no control over the preparedness or capability of the children that arrive on that first day of school. We take every kid that comes in that door and do whatever we can in the seven hours a day we get to work with them to help them grow and achieve.

[socrates0ne]

The analogy here is disgusting. Children are not the CONSUMERS of education, they are not our CUSTOMERS, but instead they are the raw materials we use to construct the "product" of a fully socialized, fully indoctrinated human being. THAT is why is wrong with schools in the first place.

As long as people see children as unimportant tools to use to produce a product for the REAL customer - the state, then education will continue to be awful.

[dbfulton88]

No, Jim, Mr. Vollmer hits the nail on the head. Please stay focused in your English class when the teacher reviews grammer.

[Jim Terry]

No u had it right the first time. If u would run schools like a business u can improve the quality of education. The blueberries in education r not the students. Students r the customers. The bad blueberries in education is the instructional program. if education would make the instructional program for the customers' taste eduction would improve.

Jim Terry Ph.D., CPA

Dallas ISD

Dallas Texas