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In article <15DEC199216015557@rover.uchicago.edu>, frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger) writes:

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|> 	While I strongly believe that a bumbling bureacureacy is a major
|> 	burden on the Chicago schools, I still believe that money is the
|> 	major tail that wags the dog of education.

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This is PC baloney.  Even if you leave out the fact that many countries
spend less on education than the U.S. and get better results, there are
also studies done within the U.S. that find low to no causation between
expenditure and results.  Educational results do, however, improve a lot
as the parents' socioeconomic class goes up, simply because they care.
Middle-class kids do better in school because they have middle-class
parents, not because they go to expensive schools.

Catholic schools are a standard example in the U.S., spending less
money than state schools (& hiring fewer bureacrats) but doing better.

We are getting rather far from any xyz.science newsgroup's real subject ...
at least in Kornbluth's work, the smart ones bothered to take care of
the morons, and had some time left over for themselves after doing so.

|> 	B/ With a current (15 year) history of property taxes rising at the
|> 	   rate of 12% a year, by the time I retire, I will be spending 100%
|> 	   of my income paying property taxes.

So get on alt.politics.clinton and figure out how to get more school for
the money.
		- Richard