Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:50:42 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, hoek@hwcn.org, softweyr@xmission.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations Message-ID: <199708102250.RAA29453@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199708102239.PAA20726@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Aug 10, 97 03:39:33 pm"
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> John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > The good thing about school vouchers is that even alot of families in poverty > > care about their kids. They can also vote with their voucher. I would think > > that the voucher would "enable" the poor folk, and not necessarily give > > i dont know....regarding the tax break for college tuition, > i hear that college will raise prices by the amount of the > tax break. if that is true, wouldnt private schools raise > tuition by the amount of the voucher? > Maybe, maybe not -- however it would bring the spectre of competition into the public school arena. Again, I really do believe that there are alot of poor people who are "middle class" but unfortunate. There is a prevailing liberal attitude that poor people don't/can't care about themselves, and I have found that the opposite is true. Sure, there are alot of people who don't care about themselves, or their families, and it is doubly bad when they are poor also. (I would not know how to live, making $15K-$25K/year with a kid or two, but those working poor do get by.) They cannot be dumb... Actually, the biggest thing that the vouchers will do is to shake-up the school admins, and that is good. Why do you think that so many resist the school voucher idea? Imagine a sloppy school that is at risk of closing, and the principal is "at risk." Risk is an amazing motivator (sp?). I don't think that a career of an administrator is nearly as important as the quality of care and education that children get. These school admins make a reasonable amount of money compared to their teacher peers, and with that additional income, comes responsibility. We get paid for responsibility and innovation, and I think that a manager of a school should have appropriate feedback mechanisms also. Along with the feedback mechanisms, the management of a school needs to be "enabled" and "empowered" (in the truest sense of the words.) John
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