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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6899)	2/28/2001 10:39:33 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Lower cost, but not higher quality. Businesses need to make money- where is the profit going to come from? Is it going to magically materialize out of the ether? Is it created from nothing? No, it isn't. It comes from cutting corners and becoming "efficient". Special Education is not "efficient". Music and art programs are not efficient. Much of education, that desperately needs to be done is not efficient short term- it will be efficient long term, since those whom you do not educate you incarcerate, but why would a business care about that? If you want to make widgets and use the cheapest materials, and outsource the coding for your mfctr process to Taiwan or India, and utilize mfctr plants in Mexico to evade US environmental restrictions, and if your widgets have a defect in them that may kill people, but you figure it would cost more to fix the widget than the law suits are going to cost- you can DO all of this as a business (and it's all been done) and no one will know what you are doing because there are no laws mandating that the public should have access to all you documents. Public education is open. Public education has as it's goal the education of the citizenry of the US. Not for profit status assures that all students, even the expensive students (generally the ones who most need help) will be served. I am not surprised you've not been around schools. You certainly sound like someone out of touch with the reality of the situation.