From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 23:38:43 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net
>The way to keep schools competitive is just to let them
>compete; nothing more, nothing less. Just piling more and
> more tests and mandates and controls and other top-down
> imposed-order crap will just compound the bureaucracy.
You seem to think I disagree with this, I don't. I was saying
how I'd run a school if I was in charge, run your school
anyway you like. I think my school would do better than yours
but we'd soon know if I'm wrong and if so I'll try things your way.
I have no ideology in this I just want what works. The key is to
let the schools be part of the free market, then maybe even a
slum would have as many good schools as good cars.
>If you give bureaucrats power to make the sstate-imposed system
> better, they'll use that power for their own purposes, not
> those intended.
Obviously the first step in reforming education would be to dump
all state schools and go private.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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