David B. Shemano wrote: > Let's imagine neighborhood school, run by the same people who think the post > office is the model of efficiency.
Let's imagine that folks who are generally underpaid and overworked aren't subject to gratuitous insults. No-one sees the post office as a model of efficiency. BTW, what in heck do you mean by efficiency? Currently, as I understand it, the post office defines that as having a large ratio of revenues to monetary costs. This follows the Nixon-era "reforms" which have been followed since. It ignores external costs and benefits, not to mention unpaid costs to the employees. Because of that, no serious economist would call it "efficiency." (Alas, economics is not dominated by serious economists.) In that light, we should remember that private schools (and charter schools that act like private schools) do not provide such services as help for special-needs kids. On that basis alone, private schools are inferior, dumping the cost of special-needs kids on the public schools and the public purse. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
