Jim Graham wrote: "If he has a child with any real education needs, like marginal dyslexia, then he will either become a social activist willing to sacrifice a child on the alter of PC public education, or he will have to fight like a lion and suffer the same frustrations that Linda Mann speaks of. I to was once a social liberal willing to risk my children to solve the social problems of the world. What a God-awful mistake, and how completely unfair to my oldest child that was."
My mother spent the last 20 years of her teaching career catering to this kind of child. Don't try to tell me there's a general problem meeting it. Though I can imagine as the government throttled education, everything got less effective. For which the reward is to try to deliver the coup de grace, no matter HOW many children that may hurt. My in-laws had a child with extreme special needs. My mother-in-law did some fighting, but he ended up graduating from high school. So, the schools met his needs. And that was despite the fact that he was unable to sit still in class. Graham further states: "My child receiving a poor education so that some affluent white child can experience racial and cultural differences is not a benefit in my mind" This is a red herring. That is NOT why your child received a poor education. You should start considering that the political party that made the promise every election to stop tax increases has major responsibility in the failure of many school children. We were able to fund Target Center when we could not fund needed school programs. Explain that one to me. Alan Shilepshy says "Just as one-party rule ill-served city government, so too does one party rule of the School Board ill serve our schools. When I see years of failed and/or ineffective policies rewarded by reelection after reelection, I realize that never-swerve DFL voters either don't care about the schools' failure, or are clouded by ideology or anti-conservative bigotry, or happened to be held harmless because their kids got lucky (or had their luck made for them by their parents' interest and ability to navigate the system). " Let me ask you, Mr. Shilepsky, how many times did you cast your ballot for a candidate EXCLUSIVELY on the basis of the complaint "tax and spend". You might have to look in the mirror to find part of the blame for things that don't work. Jim Mork, Longfellow __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
