PR> MS>FT> You usually are in opposition to educator unions and public 
PR> admin.
PR> MS>FT> What would you think of INDIVIDUAL (and small groups of) 
PR> EDUCATORS
PR> MS>FT> having this kind of *CONSUMER POWER!* over their support?
PR> MS> 
PR> MS>    I'd rather see empowerment of _taxpayers_ (who pay the bills)
PR> MS>generally, and _parents_ with kids in public schools (who have 
PR> most at
PR> MS>stake).  
PR> MS>    You are talking the equivalent of empowering the UAW locals by
PR> MS>decentralizing authority within the UAW, I am talking empowering 
PR> car
PR> MS>buyers.
PR> 
PR> Since when have car buyers been able to dictate to auto manufacturers
PR> what kind of car they would like to buy?
    Since the oil crisis of the mid-70s, when the Big Three found that they 
couldn't say "the customer be damned" and still get purchases.
    The availability of imported compacts was what forced the Big Three to 
eventually make their own cars like them.
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