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To: James Strauss who wrote (20434)	9/14/1998 10:27:00 AM
From: HighTech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Congress or the president can't do squat about the education problem in America. It takes good teachers and administrators who don't get caught up in the dumbing down pressure exhibited by liberals, many parents who think there children can do no wrong, and students who are for the most part whiners. When discipline is used and excellence demanded without compromise, students will be successful. Liberals have destroyed the ability to demand higher standards because they are too concerned how Johnny feels about 1+1=2 rather than knowing that 1+1=2. Since the great society spending, there has been an inverse relationship between the obscene amounts spent on education and the SAT scores of our children. Throwing more money from Congress at the problem will do nothing to solve the problems. HiTech

To: James Strauss who wrote (20434)	9/14/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Elllk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Jim I agree. But most of our Congressmen are not doing these more important things you mention anyway. They are meekly piping the corporate tune and taking the corporate, so called, donations for doing so. Unfortunately, they wouldn't get elected or re-elected if they didn't. So part of the problem is the system and the way it has developed and at this point trying to change it, in certain ways, is also a significant and worthy endeavor to add to the others. Larry