[Vision2020] Idaho Public Schools 15-year Trends

[Thomas Hansen]

One simple lquestion:

How are scholarships that are awarded to non-Idaho residents "hurting the
children of
Idaho"?  Please provide more than "because I say so".

Limiting scholarships only to Idaho residents is narrow-minded beyond
belief.

Tom Hansen

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Spencer [mailto:spencerjt@wlu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:44 AM
To: dale@courtneys.us; donovanarnold@hotmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Public Schools 15-year Trends


Mr. Arnold, et at.,

In your e-mail, you present a false dilemma.  Raise money for education
or you are selfish and lazy.  You assume that Mr. Courtney's desire is
to hurt the children of Idaho.  How if it is another way?  What if Mr.
Courtney believes that the current system is hurting the children of
Idaho, and something else needs to be done about it?  How if he has come
up with another way to become active in helping educate and teach, a way
that does not use methods that have failed time and again?  What if he
proposes to become actively involved in teaching a specific child to
read, not just being content that feeding money into a failed system
will perform miracles?  What if Mr. Courtney is, instead of being
demon-worshiping selfish and lazy, determined to find better ways to
truly help children?  Would you listen to him and find out?  Or do you
not know that there is wealth that is not money?

Regards,
Jacob Spencer