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To: jlallen who wrote (119599)	12/26/2000 5:20:28 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I suspect schools in N.H. are somewhat different from those say, in Detroit, Chicago or St. Louis. Re: "What it takes to give the kids a good education is a teacher who teaches and controls the classroom and parents who care about their kids enough to make sure homework gets done ..." That's the problem. It's not really a teacher problem; it's a parent problem. So many kids in school today have parents who never respected or valued education. The cycle repeats every 20 years when these kids in turn have kids. How do we break the cycle? I don't know. You tell me. But I will say this. The problem won't go away by Republicans chanting their mantra of " ... in my day we did it this way...."

To: jlallen who wrote (119599)	12/26/2000 6:01:34 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Lowering class sizes and raising education spending per se just causes more inflation. You just get into a spending race among adjacent jurisdictions to keep personnel in your hire. If you're going to reduce class sizes and lower the teacher workload, the rational offset would be to reduce salaries and other resources. Unfortunately, the smaller the class sizes, the more buildings, rooms, and support staff who don't teach are needed. Education spending is already growing in the 10-15 percent per year area.