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To: DMaA who wrote (51343)	6/2/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 67261

Well that would be fine with me but fundamentally I think schools have been tragically neglected for so long just "cutting" starting today won't fix much - because thats what they did 20 years ago, cutting I mean, and now here we are with 35 kids to a class and buildings with no heat (I am serious about this) and textbooks that have no relation to modern science. Just go take a look in your local strip mall and you'll find "teachers den" stores where they sell pencils and notebads and books etc - these exist so that parents and teachers in public schools can go and spend their own money to buy books and supplies for kids. Well guess what - in the minority areas these "extras" don't get bought and that leads to no education poverty etc. If people are really concerned about prisons and drugs in this country then they should drive to Oakland California and take a good hard look at the public school system but of course they don't do that. Anyway with regards to your point, I am all for curtailing any bureaucracy and that can be a part of the fix but again buildings with no heat and poor lighting are unacceptable and there is no way to fix that without money. It reminds me of Tsongas and whoever else from the concord coalition talking about voters in 1990 when we had a huge deficit. He said he couldn't get entitlement reform because voters wanted to believe they could fix the deficit by just cutting "fat". Well there may be fat in the school system but when it sucks this badly I don't see how it can be corrected without money from somewhere and it is a small price to pay in my estimation.