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To: unclewest who wrote (130598)	8/8/2005 9:47:24 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793883

Edited: That makes an excellent argument for vouchers and schools where more money is spent on teaching and less on administration. Vouchers don't produce that result. They take money from public education so less for these kinds of serious innovations. And schools are likely to become profit centers in a voucher system in which less money goes to education. Vouchers just introduce the wrong set of incentives into education. Your point though, that less money needs to be spent on administration and more on teaching, is one I completely agree with. That's as true in higher education as in k12. And truer in big city systems than in suburban and rural ones. But it's not likely to happen. Max Weber was right and we are living with the consequences. PS. You don't move to H to get away from liberals. Like NJ, H is loaded with them. To get away from liberals you move to Northern I. We both know Bill's move to H was for none of the reasons I inferred nor for that reason. Bill was just looking for new dance partners. ;-) I'll certainly take your point that liberals are a rare bread in Northern I. Survivors, militia, and the like. You should try living in more interesting places, with, for instance, members of the New York Philharmonic just down the bloc, or ten members of the Columbia computer science faculty sprinkled around, or well over twenty members of the CUNY faculty with a healthy, respectable, and heart warming at least four as sociologists. Heaven indeed.