[CW] Re: cw (ARRL must get better)

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/9/05 2:53:33 AM Eastern Standard Time, cwmcode at yahoo.ca 
writes:

I previously wrote:

> "I disagree 100% on that!
> 
> We don't have an education system in the USA, we have
> several systems, 
> and they range from goshawful to excellent. The
> children I know - 
> including my own - are far better educated than I was
> at there (edit: their) age. Not just 
> in how to use computers or such things, but about
> stuff like writing, 
> history, math, and science."
> 
> 
> 
> You're surely joking! 

Not at all. 


The last time I saw the results
> 
> of standardized testing the results were dreadful vs.
> the international averages.

I wasn't talking about overall national standards and I
wasn't talking about international averages. 

The discussion was about how US schools have supposedly
deteriorated over the past generation or so. My observation
is about how well children I know personally are educated, 
compared to how well educated I was at their ages and grade
levels.

Standardized testing is a different issue completely. It lumps 
everybody in an area or country into one pile. Can you compare
how the USA ranked 30-40 years ago with how it ranks today?

 I think if you can afford
> 
> to send your kids to private schools or involve
> yourself in home schooling the results might be/are
> better.

Maybe. But I was referrring to children in my local public schools.
My own direct experience with these kids goes back to when they
were in preschool.


 Sadly, many American children are now the
> 
> victims of "cultural marxism" read: political
> correctness!! It would seem we may have lost an entire
> generation. 

How so? 

I don't claim that my experience is universal - some public school
systems are, as I said, "goshawful". Others are excellent. Simply
 lumping all of them together is not fair at all. Nor is it accurate.

I recall how my generation was a cause of great concern to some
because of the "hippies" and such. Before the hippies were the
 "beatniks" and such. 


To bring things back on topic, I'm
> 
> convinced that CW will survive as a viable mode
> regardless of what changes MAY occur for HF
> privileges....
> 
> 

I hope you're right but I also think we must oppose
those who would continue to reduce the mode's viability
by reducing the usability of the bands for CW. 

73 de Jim, N2EY