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Running
Schools Like Business
from PEN
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"Now that Enron, WorldCom and Adelphia have
become fodder for late-night comics,
few are suggesting we operate like
these folks," writes Paul Houston in
the latest issue of "The School Administrator." Schools and
business have always had a complex relationship.
Schools supply the future workforce
and customer base. However, schools
often have been used as the
designated whipping boy for some business folk to cover their
failures. According to Mr.
Houston, "It is hard to listen to business leaders decry
the quality of their workforce
with one breath and then complain about
higher taxes with the next breath as if there is no
connection between the
two things. And of course after hearing for years that
'money doesn't matter' and that
schools should do more with less and
then seeing the obscene amounts of
money that many of these same people
have made boggles the mind and
upsets the stomach. Further, as we struggle to teach children
values, we must offset the
example of incredible greed and dishonesty
demonstrated by some of these same leaders."
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