vision2020
Re: LMT article dtd 3 Aug 98
Robert, you could probably send all the Idaho students to college tuition
free if you just eliminated atheletics and the gigantic budgets.
As for teacher continuing education, Drs. nurses, pharmacists, and other
professionals are required to stay current at their (our ) own expense.
Thats part of the tool bag they bring to work, a minimum expected
requirement.
Sam Duncan
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> From: Robert Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: LMT article dtd 3 Aug 98
> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 9:44 AM
>
> At 08:38 AM 8/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >I find this rhetoric troubling. We "employers" are not willing to pay
> >public school teachers a decent wage but nonetheless expect them to
> >continue to school themselves, be creative, etc. etc. etc. The fact
that
> >some people continue to do so far beyond anything reasonable is amazing.
> >The fact that only a few day is completely understandable.
> >
> >Dale Goble
> >
> Let's turn over 90% of the defense budget (or more accurately, the Budget
> for Foreign Military Intervention) to domestic purposes, and I bet we
could
> raise the education level in the U.S. to that of a First World Nation.
Of
> course, we could simultaneously provide universal health care,
> comprehensive unemployment benefits & job retraining, major environmental
> initiatives, desperately needed infrastructure investment, youth
programs,
> care for the elderly & handicapped, and other things that our government
> doesn't define as worthy to "defend."
>
> Robert Hoffmann 115 N. Jackson St., Suite D
> Alt-Escape Adventures Moscow, ID 83843 USA
> http://www.alt-escape.com Phone: (208) 883-0642
> Fax: (208) 883-8545
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