-=> On 04-15-98  13:47, Walter Luffman did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Robert Craft concerning advert. for 23% sales tax <=-
 
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 RC> OTOH, can't you see a corporations such as Boeing, etc
 RC> buying up a public school adjacent to the plant and making
 RC> enrollment available to employee children AND making
 RC> teaching positions available to Boeing staffers, either
 RC> active or retired?
 WL> I can see the corporate school happen, but I can also see
 WL> employer-provided education being taxed as income. The big
 WL> corporations could get around that by opening their schools to
 WL> non-employee families on an equal basis with employee families,
 WL> but that might be too horrendously expensive to implement.
It wouldn't be income if the employer required a voucher
or it's $$$ equivalent.
 WL> As for making teaching positions available to Boeing employees
 WL> and retirees, we're seeing something similar being proposed in
 WL> Tennessee with our "charter schools" program where a percentage
 WL> of the teachers could be people with degree-certification in
 WL> particular fields (mathematicians and physicists, for example)
 WL> but no formal teaching credentials.  It isn't going to happen
 WL> this year, and probably not next year -- the teachers' union
 WL> is too strong.
Now that they've used the RICO statute on the pro-choice
movement, can we turn it on the NEA? 
 WL> Colleges and universities value expertise over teaching
 WL> credentials, but not public primary and secondary schools.
 WL> Even Stephen Hawking couldn't get a job teaching high-school
 WL> physics in this country.
I can't see why it takes more than two semesters to
instruct degree'd adults in the techniques available to
teach middle school and high school students. Granted,
elementary school teachers should have some instruction in
child development.
... Bill and Hillary Clinton: Washington's version of Bonnie and Clyde.
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