On Wednesday, Aug 6, 2003, at 09:46 America/Indianapolis, Louis_Schmier wrote:
In theseY'all Georgians should consider yourselves lucky. In a town nearby, a town which has one of the world's major universities, one of the high schools is building a $6 million gym to be named after one of it's former athletes. They have already received one $1 million donation and two $500K donations.
stringent, cost-cutting economic times when everyone is tightening their
budgetary belt and when everyone is talking about "leaving no child
behind," the local high school bragged that it has just constructed a
brand new $100,000 weight room.
Check your state budgets (and your local budgets) over the last 20 years and you will see that while they are putting more actual dollars into education, the percentage of budget has been going down steadily. This, in spite of the fact that many states have started lotteries to increase the money devoted to schools.
We have to deal with the fact that education is not valued in this country as it is in others (certainly not at the undergraduate level) and that in spite of the fact that the institution at which I teach will have record enrollments this fall, we are forced to put 45+ students in a room designed for 30, and take nearly 60 people in a class that was designed for 45.
Dr. Bob Wildlbood Lecturer in Psychology Indiana University Kokomo Kokomo, IN 56904-9003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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