Re: [Leica] really off topic funding schools

[Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>]

Absolutely right
They are about as honest as everyone else. But they
are the only ones who are afforded so much protection
from scrutiny. No one should have this kind of deal.
Considering that even private colleges are heavily
subsidised, it's you who flips the bill. BTW: It's
really the whole industry that's responsible. In order
to be acredited universities must have a tenure system
of some kind. Similarly, for charities to be certified
they have to meet certain guidelines. the 70 cents on
your donated dollar are consumed meeting theat
criteria, via the most expensive path. 
In both cases it's the requirements imposed to insure
standards that cause the lowering of the standards as
well as the high bills.
Javier

- --- John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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