[Vision2020] MSD Pay and Tenure--a reply

[Dale Courtney]

Donovan wrote :
> >"*If* the cost driver of education were the children, then it's senseless
> >that inflation-adjusted spending has *increased* by over 100% in that
same
> >time."
> This is where another one of assumptions is WRONG! It is not children that
> causes the cost of of school to rise.

It's interesting that you admit that children are not the cost driver for
education. *Think* a while about what that means -- and the implications for
that. This is what I have been saying all along -- it's not about the
children.

> You cannot compare 1992 to 2003.

You can when you take the CPI (Consumer Price Index) into account. That's
the whole purpose of the CPI. Inflation takes into consideration those
things related to the cost drivers.

> You seem to think that "child
> enrollment" is the only factor that should affect costs of education. This
> is like saying that rent should go down in proportion to the number of
> children you have in the house.

Illogical comparson. We're not *forced* to rent a high-end slum; we are with
government education.

> Total Cost of attending to student Public elementary school $0

And *this* is your fatal error -- thinking that goverenment schools are
"free", even to the students. Think about what the parents *could* be doing
for their kids if they weren't being bled for all the money that they are
paying in the various taxes that go to MSD (property, State, Federal, etc).

> Yes, and millions more are doing it for free, it is called public school.

We have a *very* different idea about what "free" means. But then again, for
statists, *everything* the government "provides" is free.

Sigh...

Best,
Dale Courtney
Moscow, Idaho