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In article <PEERCY.93Oct15103256@kaos.stanford.edu> peercy@kaos.Stanford.EDU (Mark S. Peercy) writes:
>
>The motives of the opponents certainly should not go unnoticed.  In the 
>October 11 editorials of the San Francisco Chronicle, Milton Friedman writes:
>
>  To know how important it is to pass Proposition 174, all you need to know 
>  is the list of people who are opposed to it.  Based on the September 12 
>  editions of The Chronicle, the opponents are: the State Board of Education; 
>  the interim superintendent of public instruction; the California PTA; the 
>  League of Women Voters; teachers' unions and the state AFL-CIO; the 
>  California School Boards Association; and most Democratic office holders.  
>  There is also the major opponent, the National Education Association.
>
   Hmmmm.  Those same folks claim they haven't enough money to provide
   decent education.  Perhaps we should consider reducing their
   budgets by the tens of millions of OUR funds they are spending on
   this campaign?

   Or if they spent as much time teaching (or worrying about quality
   of same) as fighting, the proposition wouldn't even BE on the
   ballot in the first place?

   I dunno if Prop 174 is really any kind of answer to the atrocious
   educational system of current California, but if all those groups
   are fighting it, it just might put the fear of God into them and
   help with getting on with improving education without taxing
   Californians into bankruptcy.