-=> Quoting Carl Bogardus to Michael Martinez <=-
 CB> Hmm, I still use the keyboarding skills I learned in HS.
 
 MM> Actually, that's the aboslute best thing I ever learned in high school
 MM> , my typing skills, and I've used it a lot since then.  That's how
 MM> things should be structured, to offer you a skill 
 MM> that you want to learn,
 CB> Ahhh, but here is the catch, I didn't want to learn typing! The
 CB> structured curriculum you and Ivan so oppose had typing as one of the
 CB> required electives. Little did I know that I would be using it on a
 CB> day to day basis. 
So it was lucky that you had already acquired the skill. 
 MM> Going from an 8th grade ed to college, if that's 
 MM> the way it's gonna be,
 MM> shouldn't cost $.  That's one of my points.
 CB> Your points are going nowhere, it costs far too much for the average
 CB> Mexican citizen to attend school after the 8th grade, that is part of
 CB> the reason Mexico has such problems and so great a difference between
 CB> the haves and have nots. This is why all of the border states have an
 CB> influx of illegal students, their families will do anything to see
 CB> that their child gets an education.  
That's hardly an important reason for problems in Mexico.  Mexico;s problems
are due to government control over their resources.  This doesn't depend
on the state of learning of any of the populace.  It's strictly a decision
made by the people in power.
-michael
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