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Re: California Public Schools Funding: A Masterplan for Failure

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From: Ron Dippold
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:02
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genzuk@mizar.usc.edu (Michael Genzuk) writes:
>Ron Dippold responds, "
>   "Sorry, but when the teachers are less than 50% of the school system
>   employees I have trouble feeling much sympathy for the system.  Too
>   many administrators and total waste.  The private school teachers in
>   CA are almost 90% teachers.  They don't have anything to gain by
>   bloating the bureaucracy, unlike the public schools.  The public
>   schools have all the resources they need, they just need to stop
>   pissing so much of it away."

>Where in the world do you come up with these figures?  They are totally
>erroneous.

Totally erroneous my ass.  The figures are, respectively, 86% of
private school employees are teachers.  46% of public school employees
are teachers, 18% are paraprofessionals, and 36% are administrators.
Exact source when I get home.

>  It is one thing to disagree with a point of view, but 
>certainly  another to fabricate statistics that are non-existant to
>defend your position. 

Yes, if you don't like them they're non-existant [sic].

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