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- From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Masterplan for Failure
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:02:11 GMT
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- genzuk@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Genzuk) writes:
- >Ron Dippold responds, "
- > "Sorry, but when the teachers are less than 50% of the school system
- > employees I have trouble feeling much sympathy for the system. Too
- > many administrators and total waste. The private school teachers in
- > CA are almost 90% teachers. They don't have anything to gain by
- > bloating the bureaucracy, unlike the public schools. The public
- > schools have all the resources they need, they just need to stop
- > pissing so much of it away."
-
- >Where in the world do you come up with these figures? They are totally
- >erroneous.
-
- Totally erroneous my ass. The figures are, respectively, 86% of
- private school employees are teachers. 46% of public school employees
- are teachers, 18% are paraprofessionals, and 36% are administrators.
- Exact source when I get home.
-
- > It is one thing to disagree with a point of view, but
- >certainly another to fabricate statistics that are non-existant to
- >defend your position.
-
- Yes, if you don't like them they're non-existant [sic].
-
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- If you can't fix it, feature it.
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