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- From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
- Subject: Re: New idea for school vouchers
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- References: <C0yyF6.DKB@dscomsa.desy.de> <C10FGD.B2D@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <93019.010831U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> <1993Jan21.183433.27612@m5.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:44:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.183433.27612@m5.harvard.edu>, borden@head-cfa.harvard.edu
- (Dave Borden) writes:
-
- |>In article <93019.010831U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>, U16244@uicvm.uic.edu (David
- |>James Alexander Hanley) writes:
- |>>
- |>> In article <C12Dsw.AC7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu
- |>(Herman
- |>> Rubin) says:
- |>>
- |>> >It would take little time to do this. A private school could be
- |>established
- |>> >rather quickly, even within weeks.
- |>>
- |>> I have a hard time seeing how this could take place. Weeks? It,
- |>> I think, is a somewhat more complex process to set up a school than you
- |>> think. Getting new teachers, administrators, books, getting investors,
- |>> students... Etc, e etc...
- |>
- |>Weeks might be pushing it, though a small school of an informal nature could
- |>probably be done. A year or two would be plenty of time. Announce now that
- |>starting either in the 93-94 school year of the 94-95 school year, a voucher
- |>system will exist, with the voucher of a sufficient value to give a good
- |>education, and there will be more than enough private school space by that
- |>time.
- |>The schools will be practically breaking people's doors down trying to market
- |>themselves.
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- Come off it the schools that the yuppies want to send their kids to are the ones
- that have been arround for at least four hundred years. In the USA of course
- there is the colonial discount on antiquity, so divide by four.
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- Phill Hallam-Baker
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