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[Bird of Prey]

Candidate for understatement of the year...

maybe the school systems everywhere, not just calif., spend too much money in the wrong areas


Back to On topic...

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Now for something really on topic...

Matt, how about allowing us to select from multiple Signatures for signing off on posts? Some might want to be more fun on a personal board and more formal on a stock board. besides it would allow me to play one of my favorite games...who's got the funniest sigline.

I mean really which do you like better

this...

"Oh bother" said Pooh, as the DJIA dropped 1000 points.
Name rank and serial number.

or this...

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[sarals]

marty,

I tell you one of the problems out here... this was told to me a executive I use to report to. He lives in a very well to do area. His kids are in a school with very few kids per teacher... yet he lives less than 15 mins away from where I live. Why you ask? Because the parents of that school have fund raisers each year... and I"m not talking about selling cookies. They raise big money and hire extra teachers, class room materials, etc. And I know across the hill in some very poor neighborhoods, conditions are really bad... i.e. school building broken down and in need of repair. The system is suppose to provide equally for all kids, but does not.

And I think you're right, schools pay way too much for admin and way to little for things that will directly help the kids. And, teachers and administrators both put way too much into special programs and neglect the basic, reading, writing, and math. IMO if you make the kids strong in the basic, they can go almost anywhere from there.

Sara