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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (4501)	8/27/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 769670

The problem still remains. Without improving the crime situation in the short run, it will be hard to attract real jobs into the city and even harder to avoid having drug dealers, runners, and thugs attending your classes. The turn-key parents and the insufficient supply of teachers is part of the problem, not the pay, funding, etc. You can improve the teacher-student ratio all you want but it still remains firstmost in the family's domain. The Asian-American families have the best education and have the highest per capita income -- that may or may not change with with the different immigrant mix that's been coming in the 90's. Japan has much higher student-teacher ratios than the US as do many European systems. Throwing money at a bad system just results in a bigger system of the same quality.