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From: heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton)
Date: Wed, 26-Oct-88 22:33:44 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Oct26.223344.2177@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re:  CUT TO THE FAT
References: <8810191618.AA03472@cartier.dgp.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: heath@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Todd Heatherton)
Distribution: ont

In article <8810191618.AA03472@cartier.dgp.toronto.edu> ian@dgp.toronto.edu ("Ian S. Small") writes:
>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


write on!!!!