Lisa McDonald wrote:

> Actually several years ago the council decided to not allow it to be taken
> out of office or council budgets because people took the course often to pad
> their own resumes or right before they left office or the employment of the
> city. In fact in makes perfect sense since people use it as a career
> enhancer but it isn't necessarily essential as job training in the city.

I must be missing something here.  You mean to say there are employers
out there that will be impressed that someone has taken an extension
course at Harvard, when many of these course are open to anyone
willing to shell out the necessary fees?

> Plus the city doesn't consistently pay for education for employees so this
> would end up being a program that some folks were able to use by virtue of
> their position in the city and others couldn't.

I'm missing something again.  So the city won't pay for a course on
public policy for a councilmember unless a clerk in accounting
can receive tuition for the same course?  Gezz, no wonder this
city's in the shape it's in.

Michael Atherton
Prospect Park


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