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To: wallacestevens who wrote (570)	8/23/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 67261

Yeah wallacestevens thanks for that. Theres a LOT wrong with CA schools and I genuinely think most of it is at the state level. You cant even think about sending your kids to CA public schools anymore - its a disgrace. Couple the dismal class size issues with some bilingual education laws and the next thing you know nobody can add a fractional number. PS Maybe we can merge the NEA with the NRA in a kind of biodome type experiment when both are dismantled. Both groups have to stay in the bubble for a year.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (570)	8/23/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Respond to of 67261

Wallace, my mother learned to read and write far better than the average person can today coming out of public schools, and she learned in a one-room school-house on the North Dakota prairie. Her ND high school taught latin too, as a required subject. And as I recall, the LAUSD (the largest district in the nation) schools cost more per-pupil than any other district in the nation. And their students are the dumbest. Moral, comparing my mother's education, and that of the CA LAUSD: money isn't the problem, although of course school's should have proper heating/AC, etc.

To: wallacestevens who wrote (570)	8/24/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: j_b	Respond to of 67261

re; the slicing of California school budgets - this whole comment has me confused. Almost 50% of government spending in California is for education. How high should it be? How did the Republican governors manage these foul deeds over the Democrat Congresses that California has had the entire time? Why did Californians continue to elect Republican governors during this time if the governors were decimating the school systems? How did the governor manage to adequately fund schools in wealthy districts while avoiding the others?