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From: dsf@allegra.UUCP (David Fox)
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Subject: Re: privatization of education
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Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 13:44:36 EDT
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In article <2413@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>					It is unfair for a person
>to be forced to pay for somebody else's child's education; the idea
>that someone's hard work is going to pay for what are properly others'
>responsibilities can hardly be considered just, unless one adopts
>socialist notions or a spurious appeal to pragmatism.

A spurious appeal to pragmatism?  Heaven Forefend!  The economy
of our country, or any post-industrial economy, cannot function
unless most of the population are literate.  If this country
eliminates its free public education system, its economy will
collapse.  This seems somewhat more unfair to me than subsidizing
the educations of "those less fortunate".

David Fox