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To: i-node who wrote (180541)	1/14/2004 5:56:34 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575146

Good point. Such a cut will be painted as "destroying vital programs for the blind", but it may easily be no such thing. In fact it might not even bee a cut. It might a reduction in the planned increase. Tim

To: i-node who wrote (180541)	1/15/2004 1:39:59 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575146

Hi David, RE: 'Without looking at the details of what is being cut, you simply can't make a rational argument one way or the other." Details are of course key. But when you cut items from a budget (and I've had to do that once or twice in my life), you tend to look at the big stuff that'll make more impact. I see $22B as a huge amount of money that's being spent on teachers who don't even know how to teach us math too well and this falls negatively on the backs of some of the entry level hightech engineers, who end up having their jobs threatened because their schooling was done poorly. The only person who wins out is the $22B teacher. Frankly, I'm ticked off at the schooling system around here - and they have unions to protect their teaching jobs. No one seems to get the connection. And then this hurts entry level engineers. Not fair. Oh, and then they cut the RND in universities, of all things. My vote would be to import teachers from India that know how to teach K12 students, and increase RND and education in the univerisites and drastically increase grants to students. Regards, Amy J