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From: ian@dgp.toronto.edu ("Ian S. Small")
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re:  CUT TO THE FAT
Message-ID: <8810191618.AA03472@cartier.dgp.toronto.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 16:18:48 GMT
Distribution: ont
Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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On Oct 19, Robert (NetJunkie) Hubbs continues to air his views concerning
provincial government funding to universities and the lack thereof.  Without
descending into the somewhat arbitrary question of style, I note the following:

> some responsability to answer. Here goes.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sp:  responsibility

> supposed to be doing. Ontario recieves money from the federal
                                ^^^^^^^^ sp: receives

> use only. While it is the provinces responsability to administer
       should be provinces' ^^^^^^^^^
				      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sp. again - marks
						     for consistency

> education (and therefore all transfer payment for education) it is the
                                        ^^^^^^^ should be payments

> federal governments money.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^ should be government's

>	Much of the money transfered is not spent on education. Rather
> the province put it to other uses. Of late this has been hospitals. I
               ^^^ should be puts or previous line should be was

> am not against hospitals obiviously, but the money is ment to be spent
                                                        ^^^^ sp:  meant

> on education. It gets spent on hospitals because the predominate group
                            this is a verb; presumably ^^^^^^^^^^^
                            you mean predominant

>	The provincal education policy is not supportive of students
            ^^^^^^^^^ sp: provincial

> in part because student are not putting pressure on the government.
                  ^^^^^^^ should be students

> this has happend before to other groups. A case in point is the 
  ^^^^ should be This; forgivable in netland
	   ^^^^^^^ sp: happened

> The elderly community was suitable upset and made that known. The
                            ^^^^^^^^ wrong part of speech; you mean suitably

> province knuckled under right away. They expected sheep to follow,
> they got people thinking for them selves and choosing something else.
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^ sp: themselves; second sentence is
					   a run-on sentence


> province and in the contry as a whole.
                      ^^^^^^ sp: country


> and Austraila) who all made the trip over here to study because they
      ^^^^^^^^^ sp: Australia (probably a typo)

> What is the cost of losing that education? to the individual and to
> the country as a whole. 
                                             ^^^^... not a sentence

> - Robert Hubbs



It seems to me that in this case, the problems in the educational system lie
more at the grade school level than at the university level :-) .  Perhaps we should
be more concerned about trying to convince the provincial government to improve
the quality of basic education in the province.

-- 

Ian S. Small                      Dynamic Graphics Project
				  Computer Systems Research Institute
				  University of Toronto
(416) 978-6619			  Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4