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To: epicure who wrote (148434)	10/30/2010 8:32:50 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544095

I agree about the quality of teaching being better, though the contrast between small rural schools in Texas and a New Jersey suburb close to NYC makes it difficult ot measure. Your assessment about schools doing much, much more and that needs to be rethought squares with my own. I suspect we would disagree as to what stays and goes but the further I get into the public school world around here, the more I'm surprised at how much is expected. If we had a decent governor in Jersey, she/he would work with the school system to help them rethink public education, given the fiscal issues. It might even improve education to do so. But when you have a screamer for governor, one who cuts the state portion of local school budgets dramatically and at the last minute and who won't work with school teacher, it's much more likely to mean worse schools.