[Vision2020] Idaho Public Schools 15-year Trends

[Donovan Arnold]

Mr. Probasco,

Why don't you try reading my entire email. Instead of just one line. Why 
don't you be more specific in what the problem is in funding our schools, 
instead of coming up with vague statements? What is the solution to the 
diagnosis of learning disabled children and their treatment? Do you suggest 
that schools just use donated books? How about utilities, how do you pay for 
those? What about buildings, do we replace them with straw huts? Give some 
solutions instead of clever little sayings that mean and do nothing to solve 
that problem. Idaho ranks 45 out 50 states for education funding per pupil. 
Anyone can complain, but it takes more to study, comprehend, and act on the 
problem. Are you a complainer, or doer? Thanks!

Donovan


>From: "Robert Probasco" <rcprobasco@fastmail.fm>
>To: "'Vision2020'" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Idaho Public Schools 15-year Trends
>Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 18:49:25 -0800
>
>----- Original message -----
>From: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanarnold@hotmail.com>
>
>So since I am pro-education, I am pro money for schools. I think this is
>pretty obvious.
>_______________________________________________
>
>Think again.  I am strongly pro-education, which is why I am so
>astonished and disgusted at what the schools have become.  (See my
>previous Vision2020 postings for details.)
>
>When our schools stop penalizing success and stop rewarding failure, they
>will have made a seismic shift toward redeeming themselves.  Until then,
>I see little reason to encourage the idiotic policies promulgated under
>the guise of "benefiting the children."
>
>Many books and articles have been written about this, but my favorite
>remains Philip K. Howard's The Death of Common Sense (1994).  It deals
>with larger issues, but the section on education is truly sobering.
>
>Bob Probasco
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