RE: Education and Presidential Candidates

["Nimon, Harry H SSI-GRCA" <HN202460@MSXSSC.SHELL.COM>]

		Roger wrote:
				All the ideas of competition between schools
etc will (IMHO) do diddlysquat because it is not changeing the system.  BUT
it is not the teachers or the politions fault.  They know no better........
		Given this perspective, competition between GM and Ford will
not result in improvements to the automobile because one is not changing the
system...yet the improvements and change do occur.  They occur precisely
because to not do so maintains the current product at a point where one or
the other is substandard.  The customer then selects that which provides for
their needs the best.  Taken back to the school situation, the response is a
growing demand for private schools (which is occurring) for precisely the
reasons you stated in your post (e.g. fewer socio-based problems, improved
classroom environments, etc.).  Why should competition fail in public arenas
such as a school system when it has succeeded in so many other places?  They
have the same situations of diverse populations, varied socio-economic
strata, etc.  Only the names have changed...
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