| Grex > Agora47 > #214: Election year approaches - the solution to the education problem. |
| response 25 of 29: | 
Dec 10 21:28 UTC 2003 |
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| response 26 of 29: |
Dec 10 21:30 UTC 2003 |
Y'all forgot the Old Boy Network.
| response 27 of 29: |
Dec 11 19:52 UTC 2003 |
Remember, public school teachers are paid from public school budgets, which are set by elected officials.... who keep cutting them to pay off their special interests. In traditional supply and demand economics, when demand goes up, the amount of money that is (potentially) available goes up. That doesn't happen here. Or maybe demand hasn't gone up enough yet. Maybe in order for demand to really affect the supply of money available for paying teachers, educational conditions will have to get so bad that voters will force politicians to actually pay attention to education.
| response 28 of 29: |
Dec 11 19:58 UTC 2003 |
"[School budges] are set by elected officials.... who keep cutting them to pay off their special interests." So that's why the State of Michigan is cutting the amounts allocated to education, both k-12 schools and colleges and universities?
| response 29 of 29: |
Dec 12 15:48 UTC 2003 |
Re resp:27: I think it's more likely that bad conditions will be used as an excuse to get rid of public schools altogether.