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You are
correct partisan politics should not control the futures of our children.
At the very
least politics should be ruled out of education. Only quality controls
and
INDIVIDUAL commitment to those standards should be a consideration.
I think the
problem with education today is the politicizing of the school
boards. Some see
this a way of launching their political career, others may see it as
a means to
any political career at all. Personally I think the only people
qualified to be on
the school board are those with a child in school, left school in last six
years, a
grandchild in school, or within two years of their child going to
school. We have an
intellectually and monetarily bankrupt school system because of
political
tinkering by fools who do not know the first thing about children but
are good at
politics. Judges have to be lawyers, why not school board members be
required to
be mothers. The above
comes from some one who does not believe in the public school
system. Having been
forced to miss about half the time of grade school and not having
gone to
high school at all, I still managed to get mostly A's at the University. The
reason is
that reading, writing and some math was pounded into my head at
small town
and country schools, and the good old US military during a couple of
weeks. Also
the above comes from someone who had to help educate children
during the
years they attended public schools. Parents
know what their children need. You need supper before desert, and
you need
reading and math before all the political fluff that now constitutes the
education offered in
Minneapolis. The cost of this fluff is amazing. I would like to see a
cost/benefit analysis comparison
between this system and a basic parochial school. Which gives the best preparation to our children for the buck.
Jim Graham, Ventura
Village, and veteran of the war to educate one's
children
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