> Ed Weick wrote:
>
> We all know that high end private schools provide schools provide a
> very good education to the children of the wealthy.
(I am a living example that they do not always provide a
very good education to the children of those working
persons who merely happen to be able to pay the tuition and fees.)
> It may not work
> quite the same way for children of the poor.
>
> Ed
>
> Ed Weick
> 577 Melbourne Ave.
> Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7
> Canada
> Phone (613) 728 4630
> Fax (613) 728 9382
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> For-profit U.S. schools sell off their textbooks
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>
> By DOUG SAUNDERS
> Wednesday, October 30, 2002 – Print Edition,
> Page A1, Globe and Mail
>
> Students already have to worry about exams, essay deadlines and
> staying awake through math class. In Philadelphia, they have a new
> worry: What if your school becomes a victim of the stock market
> meltdown?
[snip]
> As a final humiliation, Chris Whittle, the company's charismatic chief
> executive and founder, recently told a meeting of school principals
> that he'd thought up an ingenious solution to the company's financial
> woes: Take advantage of the free supply of child labour, and force
> each student to work an hour a day, presumably without pay, in the
> school offices.
[snip]
Please tell me this is not somebody's sick joke! Because,
if it is real, it re-confirms what I've always thought of
The Edison Project -- including the treasonous clerk President of
Yale University Whttle signed on a few years ago [whose name I
forget like I forget the name of the Oklahoma bomber].
Woodrow Wilson went from President of Princeton to
President of the United States.
A. Bartlett Giamatti went from President of Yale to
Commissioner of Baseball -- but at least he thought
a baseball field was a simulacrum of paradise.
Whatever-his-name-was sold out from President of
Yale to be an employee of Chris Whittle. May he now
get an opportunity to visit his state's unemployment
office as a client not a consultant!
The Edison Project: If I remember correctly, the original
Mr. Edison was on the wrong side of the question of
whether AC or DC was the right way to electrify.
At that time, electricity was ready to become
the universal power source that it is today. Thomas
Edison and George Westinghouse were the two major
players in the struggle to control electrical
utilities. Technical and economic circumstances
at the time made Westinghouse's AC current
superior to Edison's DC current. Edison,
therefore, had to resort to some Machiavellian
manipulations to insure his domination of the wired world.
Edison's strategy was to convince everyone that
Westinghouse's AC current was unsafe. He
hired scientists to travel around and give
public demonstrations of this by electrocuting cats,
dogs, and horses with AC current. His ultimate
victory came with New York State's switch from
hanging to the electric chair, which was, of course,
powered by a Westinghouse AC generator.
(--http://www.theelectricchair.com/history.htm)
Presumably Whittle demonstrated the effectiveness
of his for-profit educational scheme as memorably.
\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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