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In article <1993Jan12.210429.7478@mixcom.com> daniel.offutt <daniel.offutt@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
>In <1iu22tINNhq2@spool.mu.edu> marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
>>Please address the situation of 'everyone' wanting to send their
>>child to school X.
>
>Well, if 'everyone' decides that Apple computers are the best personal
>computers, that will simply permit Apple Corporation to grow.  It would
>be the same for a good school.

The parallel you draw here is WRONG.  (Unless you can clone people)

If I want to make an Apple Mac, I take a bunch of exactly same parts,
hook them up the same way, and add the same software and I have a Mac.
If Apple and I agree on a price, I will get a machine with a known
performance.  (Apples may be 'the best', but if I don't think 
'the best' is worth X but is worth Y, and Apple and I can not agree
on X or Y, then there will be no sale)

Now, how do you propose to make this 'best' school given you have
variable parts, variable ways to interconnect them, and various metrics
to measure preformance.  

>  Heavy demand for enrollment would create
>a huge prospective cash flow for the good school, enabling it to obtain
>financing for new buildings and staff. But let's cut to the crux of the
>matter here.

We have this now in the private schools.  This option exists, for
thoses who wish to take it.

>Increasing competition in the education industry will not necessarily
>yield the same quantity of benefit to every school child.  But it will
>increase the average benefit across all school children -- by comparison
>to what the present public school system yields.

Will this 'increased competition' do that?  I will say not, and
claim an environment which supports the student will do more.

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