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To: gamesmistress who wrote (5606)	6/20/2003 1:27:33 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

This is why it makes me gag when someone says schools (or almost any other state run and government funded operation) need more money..... I absolutely agree.. DC apparently reported that, despite the highest spending levels for education in the country, their 12th grade students ranked last in reading ability. washingtontimes.com I mean, come on... I can understand math or science.. But reading? That should be the EASIEST subject to teach. Even if they're only reading teen magazines and "High Times". Hawk

To: gamesmistress who wrote (5606)	6/21/2003 12:35:33 AM
From: D. Long	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

That's the fundamental problem with government ventures. Private enterprises are either efficient, or go bankrupt. Government enterprises always need "just a little more money" to be perfect. What's more, the more money poured into a government venture, the less efficient it tends to become. A British doctor formulated an economic principle after studying the NHS, called Gammon's Law or the Theory of Bureaucratic Displacement. In "a bureaucratic system ... increase in expenditure will be matched by fall in production.... Such systems will act rather like 'black holes,' in the economic universe, simultaneously sucking in resources, and shrinking in terms of 'emitted production.'" I don't think it is a stretch to say that it applies to education as well. Derek