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To: dvdw© who wrote (345048)	1/19/2003 10:23:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That's an interesting idea. I like some of it. I don't like tenure, for example, and I think the idea of teachers serving at the pleasure of their communities is a good idea. On the other hand, I'd like to see some checks on just how bizarre a community could become, in terms of serving it's own interests (whether that community is liberal Berkeleyites, or a holiness community in KY). I'm not sure I want to see the system quite the way you envisage it, for purely practical staffing reasons. It's very hard to have the right number of teachers in the right places at the right times, and I think your system might complicate that balancing act so much that it would be unworkable. I like the idea of teacher specialists and parental input, assuming the parents know what they are inputting about. I'd hate to see it become a popularity contest, and it certainly could devolve into that.