[Vision2020] Suitcasing (was "Something of Interest")

[Art Deco aka W. Fox]

Y'all leave poor Dale alone!  Heah!

Dale has not been the same since his unfortunate, excruciatingly painful, 
terribly embarrassing "accident" at the Christ Church Sausage Factory.

Worse than the decapitating "accident" itself was the penance/punishment imposed 
because of the salacious and unholy nature of the "accident."  Dale was 
subjected to ten treatments at the all too eager hands of Cult Master Douglas 
Wilson at the Christ Church Suppositorium!

If you see poor, pathetic Dale out in public now in an apparent daze interrupted 
by intermittent loud screams, you will know the ghosts of his "accident" and 
subsequent punishment are active in his forsaken soul.

Lets not add to Dale's likely-to-be-long-term suffering by acknowledging his 
weak attempts to distract himself from the above-mentioned ordeal.  Instead, let 
us have pity on the poor thing.

Wayne

Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
deco at moscow.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joan Opyr
  To: Vision2020 Moscow
  Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 3:11 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Suitcasing (was "Something of Interest")



  Re: http://moscoweducation.org/

  Dear Visionaries,



  I don't know about ya'll, but I'm obliged to wonder exactly where Dale learned 
his methods of statistical analysis.  If it was in the public school system, 
then perhaps I should pay closer attention to what he has to say about the 
efficacy of charter schools as his analysis seems, to put it kindly, 
unsophisticated.  When it comes to logic, someone, somewhere has let Dale down 
rather badly.



  What I suspect, however, is that Dale pulls most of his facts and figures out 
of what my prison guard brother-in-law genteelly refers to as "nature's 
suitcase."  (For those of you lacking a graphic imagination, here's a clue --  
you're sitting on it.)  BTW, you'd be surprised at the amount of "luggage" that 
nature's suitcase will hold.  In the course of his searches, my brother-in-law 
has retrieved everything from small caliber handguns to an entire twelve-ounce 
bottle of Pantene shampoo.  Now that's an inmate who's really concerned about 
his split-ends.  But I digress.



  Does the Moscow School District spend an average of $9000 per pupil?  I have 
no idea.  I do know that the Renaissance Public Charter School, which recently 
went tits-up, leaving behind a $42,000 deficit, spent considerably less, but 
then they offered considerably less in the way of education.  They 
under-performed on standardized tests (as do charter schools nationwide -- go 
ahead, Google it for yourself), they failed to provide standard vision 
screening, they paid their teachers very poorly, and they cut corners wherever 
they could and always to the detriment of their students.  What Dale's 
bullshit-baffles-brains argument fails to address is the idea that perhaps you 
get what you pay for.  My daughter spent three years attending Moscow's assorted 
charter schools and, as a consequence, her educational needs were systematically 
shortchanged -- not by the teachers, who were wonderful, but by the charter 
schools' administrations.  Two years ago, we'd had enough; we moved her into a 
district school and never looked back.  She has thriven under the care of our 
district's professionals, and if that costs $9000, then I consider it money well 
spent.



  As far as education is concerned, I want a Lexus for my child, not a 
Volkswagon Bus.



  Waving to Dale through the exhaust fumes and bong smoke,

  Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment



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