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Jun 15, 2005

A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools

no more consultants, no more administrators dirty looks...

Link: A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools.

Maybe – as a temporary measure only – we should spend our school dollars on our schools. I realize that this is a radical departure from current practice, but desperate times require desperate measures.

The Governor proposed spending $10,084 per student from all sources. Devoting all of this money to the classroom would require turning tens of thousands of school bureaucrats, consultants, advisors and specialists onto the streets with no means of support or marketable job skills, something that no enlightened social democracy should allow.

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» Amerikansk utdanningsdebatt from Tversover
Herlig innlegg: A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools fra senator Tom McClintock. Nå skal det sies at situasjonen i California er bisarr og senatorens regneeksempel sterkt forenklet, men han har jo et poeng. Forøvrig fulgt opp av Kristin Clemet... [Read More]

» A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools from Josh Christie's Weblog
Via Jeff Nolan, I came across this proposal for saving California's schools that puts the amount of money being spent on education in perspective. Tom McClintock, the California state senator who wrote the proposal, asserts that kids could be getting b... [Read More]

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