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From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: who should pay for education. sort of. (Mexico)
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Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 15:16:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 15:16:44 1987
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John Chapman made a suggestion about having the state pay all post-secondary
education contingent upon good grades.

Actually, Mexico does this already. You have to have a certain (large) minimum
average to stay in school free. Basically a policy whereby only the rich kids 
can afford to be lazy or stupid. Seems fairly reasonable to me, but the problem
is that everybody ends up with grades at or above the minimum, since the 
government wants everyone to have an education. Mexican students recently
went to the streets to protest proposed changes to the policy.

Actually, Mexico has a lot of policies which are somewhat more anti-American 
than ours concerning the same topics. No foreign control of Mexican 
corporations, for example. It seems that we could profit by emulation of
some of these policies.
-- 
Chris Shaw    cdshaw@alberta
University of Alberta
CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !