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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: equality of opportunity (was: Re: State Income Tax)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.180741.18511@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
- References: <1993Jan17.211147.21480@rpp386> <C12noL.2GMq@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan19.165341.15682@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:07:41 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.165341.15682@Princeton.EDU> niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
- >
- >Education, however, we regard as more of a necessity. And if you aren't
- >getting one in the public schools, you should be able to get them in the
- >private schools.
-
- I think society would be a lot better off if we say that if you aren't
- getting an education in the public schools, we should fix the bloody
- public schools or let you change to one that's working.
-
- >
- >Well, you can't argue that "We shouldn't do X because we'd only do Y and
- >Z which would ruin it." Don't do Y and Z. Just do X.
-
- Sound like a good plan for fixing the public schools, to me. If we
- know what Y and Z are, why not just not do Y and Z in the public
- schools and fix them?
-
- >
- >Do what they do, right now, for universities and federal financial aid.
- >It's called accredidation. You don't need a billion regulations.
- >Sure, you end up with a few study-by-mail schools which are a fraud and
- >a waste of taxpayer money, but that doesn't make all federal financial
- >aid worthless.
-
- Nobody is REQUIRED to attend universities.
-
-
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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