[Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)

[deb]

Oh, my. In his attack on MHS Mr. Velarde doesn't say which schools he 
attended. Sadly, those schools failed to educate him in writing, grammar, 
spelling, critical thinking, and tolerance.  While I am not the grammar 
police (having some failings myself in that area), this set me off! Having 
four MHS graduates in my family, none of whom suffer from the aforementioned 
difficulties, I would be surprised if he attended MHS. Of course, with this 
sort of "You cain't teach me nuthin'  'cause I aint lissinen" attitude, he 
could have a legitimate grudge against a school system that insists one 
learn things. After all the papers, math homework, exams, and sports we 
helped (well, nagged) our children to complete, I know full well about that 
insistence on learning.

I do see Mr. Velarde's behavior fairly often in those who have a "hobby 
horse" or a soap box they feel they must occupy. They are so needing to rant 
that, missing the opportunity to actually make a point, they instead become 
parodies of themselves.

Tom, you showed great fortitude in not commenting on Mr. Velarde's foolish, 
simple minded, ill defined, poorly written piece. You are a better person 
than I, as I just had to comment. Not only do I support MHS, I support 
proper spelling and grammar. "My wife and I's" indeed? And this would scare 
liberals exactly how? And referencing Nazis is just the iceing on the mud 
pie.....EEEWWWW! The good news is, with supporters like this, the right 
wing-nuts are doomed....there cannot possibly that many complete dolts in 
the US who buy into this sort of ridiculous "stupidity by choice".
Debi R-S


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:42 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)


> "Why would people want their income tax, which supports education, to fund
> certain past and present teachers at Moscow High School? I personally had
> a current teacher who stated to me when we were undergraduates that they
> were going on forien exchange. Why? Because they were fed up with the
> United States and had to get out of the country for a while. One former
> teacher used their distinguished speaker position at the high school's
> graduation as a pulpit to cast their political ideologies. They also
> bragged that MHS was the only school in the state to have a Gay-Straight
> Alliance club. Glad to know that my wife and I's tax dollars are going
> toward this skewed form of teaching!
>
> On a positive note you seem to have begun to scare the idiotic, pseudo-
> liberal, NAZI contingent up here!"
>
> - David Anthony Velarde
>
> http://www.facebook.com/pages/ILikeIke/112506065442567?ref=ts
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I would add some colorful, humor-based comment here, but I feel that Mr.
> Velarde's comments pretty much speak for themselves.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
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