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I am Erik Hare, a 15 year resident of this fair city in the fabulous West End. I am originally from Miami where I graduated from the same High School Jeff Bezos (of Amazon) was valedictorian one year earlier. But here I am now. My daughter is in second grade at Expo, and my son George may be at JJ Hill's 4 year old program next year. I am a big believer in school choice for the simple reason that people learn in different ways. The idea that a neighborhood school can turn out educated kids through some kind of "best methods" analysis really bugs the Hell out of me. Also, like Chuck Repke, I utterly despise the mechanized schools with their bells and crap. At every chance I have to talk to an 8-12th grader, I urge them to foment rebellion against it, and make The Man stop treating them like animals. So far, it hasn't gotten anywhere, but someday ... (I'm not kidding about that, either) So I have opinions about stuff, strong opinions that aren't all that lefty but aren't really righty either. I'm sometimes fun at parties that way. I do think that public education is a) worth the roughly half of all state and local tax receipts that we put into it, and b) hopelessly squandering the riches they have on bureacracy that actually hurts by taking power away from teachers. I don't blame the school district for this, as it's about the same everywhere, so I call the whole thing the "Educational Industrial Complex". It fits with the beef about bells and so on. I'm also prone to rambling. I'll stop now. Erik Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.comcast.net/~wabbitoid/ Irvine Park, West End, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, North America, Earth Fine Amish furniture, cedar chests, and crafts http://www.harmonycedar.com _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ _____________________________________________ For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract
