From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 10 15:33:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20186 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliffy.statsci.com (root@cliffy.statsci.com [206.63.206.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA20180; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knife.statsci.com (knife [206.63.206.137]) by cliffy.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/Hub) with ESMTP id PAA30474; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:33:30 -0700 Received: from knife.statsci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knife.statsci.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/UUCP) with ESMTP id PAA00370; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708102233.PAA00370@knife.statsci.com> To: Annelise Anderson cc: ac199@hwcn.org, "Jonathan M. Bresler" , hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations References: In-reply-to: From: Scott Blachowicz Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <364.871252408.1@knife.statsci.com> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:33:29 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson wrote: > But it may improve the public schools. They'd have to compete for > students. How do they compete if they have less money? Don't the vouchers imply less money for the public schools, which in turn probably implies cutbacks and no means to expand the curriculae? > Are enough parents smart enough and concerned enough to > pick a "good" school? (I think so.) Would the public schools be > left with the difficult children--handicapped, disruptive, whatever? Well...if you think that some other school is better, doesn't that mean that some school will be considered inferior? The inferior school will be left with kids who couldn't get into the "better" schools or kids with parents who aren't smart enough or concerned enough to move to the "better" school. Either way, the "inferior" school probably doesn't see improvement. I don't really know about the voucher stuff, but it seems like it HAS to lead to less money for the public system and it seems like that HAS to reduce the public schools' quality. Doesn't it? Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org