Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People are people everywhere. I doubt very much that educators have more (or less) potential for corruption than anyone else. In my experience most people benefit from a little public oversight. Basically decent people are well behaved if they know they will be held accountable. John Collier PS: Surprisingly field trips to Cuba are not a significant expense in the US. On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 06:20 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > Hmm > Good point > Let me jump in > I didn't catch the beginning of this but when it comes > to funding schools, let me tell you; I worked in a > school and saw first hand the voracious apetite for > funding that existed on the part of the educators and > administrators. Every penny spent was spent on them in > the name of the students. I'm talking then top class > Pentium machines for all the teachers so they could > learn to use the > internet and pass the knowledge on to the students! > All this while the students were strapped down to 8mb > 486dx33s with 640k unaccelerated vga boxes that took > 10 minutes to boot into 3.1 if they didn't crash along > the way. > Then there were the field trips to places like Cuba > done in order to promote understanding between the > them and them others. Entire delegations would travel > at taxpayer expense. A few students were thrown in for > good measure. > When questioned about their spend thrift proclivities > each group would blame the other and nothing ever got > solved. > Anyway there are far better things to spend your money > on than schools that don't teach anything. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html