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- From: marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach)
- Newsgroups: uwm.general,milw.general
- Subject: Re: MPS PLAN HIRES THE WRONG WORKERS
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 05:56:56 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
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- In article <1993Jan12.210429.7478@mixcom.com> daniel.offutt <daniel.offutt@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
- >In <1iu22tINNhq2@spool.mu.edu> marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
- >>Please address the situation of 'everyone' wanting to send their
- >>child to school X.
- >
- >Well, if 'everyone' decides that Apple computers are the best personal
- >computers, that will simply permit Apple Corporation to grow. It would
- >be the same for a good school.
-
- The parallel you draw here is WRONG. (Unless you can clone people)
-
- If I want to make an Apple Mac, I take a bunch of exactly same parts,
- hook them up the same way, and add the same software and I have a Mac.
- If Apple and I agree on a price, I will get a machine with a known
- performance. (Apples may be 'the best', but if I don't think
- 'the best' is worth X but is worth Y, and Apple and I can not agree
- on X or Y, then there will be no sale)
-
- Now, how do you propose to make this 'best' school given you have
- variable parts, variable ways to interconnect them, and various metrics
- to measure preformance.
-
- > Heavy demand for enrollment would create
- >a huge prospective cash flow for the good school, enabling it to obtain
- >financing for new buildings and staff. But let's cut to the crux of the
- >matter here.
-
- We have this now in the private schools. This option exists, for
- thoses who wish to take it.
-
- >Increasing competition in the education industry will not necessarily
- >yield the same quantity of benefit to every school child. But it will
- >increase the average benefit across all school children -- by comparison
- >to what the present public school system yields.
-
- Will this 'increased competition' do that? I will say not, and
- claim an environment which supports the student will do more.
-
- --
- Marc Rassbach marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu If you take my advice, that
- MS-DOS - it's not marc@milestn.mil.wi.us is your problem, not mine!
- my problem! If it was said on UseNet, it must be true.
- Unix - It's a nice place to live, but you don't want to visit there.
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