[Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)

Fri Jun 4 21:17:43 PDT 2010

Outstanding, Sue.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com

> From: suehovey at moscow.com
> To: debismith at moscow.com; thansen at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:50:58 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)
> 
> I have checked and despite his claim, we can find nothing to indicate Mr. 
> Velarde ever graduated from or even attended Moscow High School.
> 
> 1.   We are fortunate to have had teachers on foreign exchange because our 
> students benefit from what they bring back home.  I feel confident in my 
> claim no teachers from this district went as foreign exchange teachers 
> because they, "had to get out of the country."  One would not be selected as 
> a foreign exchange teacher if that were the stated reason.  Foreign exchange 
> teachers sign pretty significant commitments that require them to take our 
> culture to the place they go, and bring home information to our students 
> when they return.  It simply isn't a run-away type of commitment.  So I feel 
> pretty confident he's not telling the truth there either.
> 
> 2.  Graduation speakers are chosen by the graduating seniors as teachers who 
> were significant to their lives as high school students.  Those of us who 
> were and are chosen consider it a signal honor to be selected.  By the time 
> we make those speeches students know our politics very well, and have had 
> many opportunities to butt heads with us regarding our ideology and their 
> response to it.  I would never have made my ideology the hallmark of my 
> speech though, but in his rant Mr. Velarde isn't specific.  What was the 
> political ideology directed to him as a pseudo-graduate:  perhaps as 
> citizens we have an obligation to care for each other; or we as citizens 
> have a responsibility to obey the law, protect the defenseless, feed the 
> hungry; or maybe even the point that Sweden takes better care of their needy 
> than we do.  All of those could be ideologically perceived.  Which would be 
> inappropriate for a graduation speaker?     And really, to whom, 
> specifically, does he refer?  I can't imagine why in the world he would be 
> reluctant to name names.  He has absolutely nothing to lose except his claim 
> to validity.
> 
> 3.  Yes, MHS does have a Gay-Straight Alliance Club.  It saves lives, 
> promotes justice, teaches tolerance, and helps students concentrate on 
> academics instead of other concerns.  School clubs use few tax dollars--the 
> cost of lights and heat in what ever classroom they meet after school; but 
> students are free to form clubs that meet their needs,  both religious and 
> other.  The US Supreme Court says public schools generally must allow all if 
> they allow any.
> 
> 4.  I do not know what to make of the final comment as I have no idea who 
> constitutes the, "idiotic, pseudo-liberal NAZI contingent."
> 
> I do not assume that just because the message is on Mr. Young's Facebook, he 
> supports the content.  I will ask him if he wishes to respond on V 2020 
> inasmuch as it has now appeared here.
> 
> Sue Hovey
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "deb" <debismith at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:16 PM
> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" 
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)
> 
> > 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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