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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (195622)	7/24/2004 1:17:06 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572766

<font color=brown>Genius, the article you posted says that spending per kid was 8K while the US household median was 42K; and that the spending per kid had doubled in 30 years. So fukking what?! They are meaningless comparisons and say absolutely nothing about nothing. And yet the right would have us believe that it speaks negative volumes about public education in this country. It does not. The reality is that the average pay for teachers is 45K per year. I don't know of many people with a 4 year degree who expect to be making only 45K after working 5 or 10 years. Clearly, if we are spending so much on education, its not going to salaries which typically are a major part of any org.'s budget. The reality is that if we are spending 8K per pupil, its not enough. And the other reality is that the right doesn't want to send their kids to public schools period.......and we all know why that is.<font color=black> seattletimes.nwsource.com