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Subject:	Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 6 Jul 1999 19:17:10 GMT
Reply-To:	c576653@cclabs.missouri.eduSPAMCAKE
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Mike Stanley wrote: > > I haven't been convinced that more money will always create better > education. Public education, like everything else run by the > government, is almost by definition inefficient and wasteful. More money spent certain ways CAN help, but it won't be spent that way. > Still, as bad as it may be, I received my entire pre-college education > from the public system, even the Southern public system, spending some > of those years being bussed to schools in neighborhoods I wouldn't > want to walk around in at night. I'm doing fine. Some of the people > who started school with me and had the same teachers and the same > materials I had aren't doing fine, but their problems stem more > from inadequacies at home and within themselves than with the public > education system. Right. Parents need to be educated too. Public school should include the whole family and if they refuse to participate, society ought to frown on it dramatically through whatever is appropriate given the context of the society in question. (brace yourselves) For our in-your-face and in-your-wallet government, I suppose sterilization, and removing the children to families that will take care of them would be appropriate. > How does more money thrown at a school solve the problem of parents > who don't take part in their child's development and education? My It won't. Their participation just needs to be demanded. -- Sincerely, Christopher L. Weeks central Missouri, USA

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		Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
(...) I agree. I've actually thought a plan of universal reversible sterilization would do just fine, with some form of proof of worthiness to be un-sterilized. The worthiness part is the tricky part - I know I'm not qualified to make decisions like (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Rights to free goods? (was Re: What happened?
(...) I haven't been convinced that more money will always create better education. Public education, like everything else run by the government, is almost by definition inefficient and wasteful. Still, as bad as it may be, I received my entire (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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