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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Y'all leave poor Dale alone!
Heah!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Dale has not been the same since his
unfortunate, excruciatingly painful, terribly embarrassing "accident" at
the Christ Church Sausage Factory. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Worse than the decapitating "accident"
itself was the penance/punishment imposed because of the salacious and unholy
nature of the "accident." </FONT><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Dale was
subjected to ten treatments at the all too eager hands of Cult Master Douglas
Wilson at the Christ Church Suppositorium!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>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.</FONT></DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>
<DIV><BR>Wayne</DIV>
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<DIV>Art Deco (Wayne Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=auntiestablishment@hotmail.com
href="mailto:auntiestablishment@hotmail.com">Joan Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 03, 2004 3:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Suitcasing (was
"Something of Interest")</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Re: <A
href="http://moscoweducation.org/">http://moscoweducation.org/</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT size=1>Dear
Visionaries,</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=1></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT size=1>I don't know about ya'll,
but I'm obliged to wonder exactly where Dale learned his methods of
statistical analysis.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When it comes to logic, someone,
somewhere has let Dale down rather badly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1>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."<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(For those of you lacking a
graphic imagination, here's a clue -- you're sitting on it.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>BTW, you'd be surprised at the amount
of "luggage" that nature's suitcase will hold.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now that's an inmate who's really
concerned about his split-ends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But I digress.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1>Does the
<st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Moscow</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>School
District</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> spend an average of $9000 per pupil?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no idea.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What Dale's bullshit-baffles-brains
argument fails to address is the idea that perhaps you get what you pay
for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My daughter spent three
years attending <st1:City><st1:place>Moscow'</st1:place></st1:City>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Two years ago, we'd had enough; we moved her into a district school and
never looked back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She has
thriven under the care of our district's professionals, and if that costs
$9000, then I consider it money well spent.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN>As far as education is concerned, I want a
Lexus for my child, not a Volkswagon Bus.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1>Waving to Dale through the exhaust
fumes and bong smoke,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1>Joan
Opyr/Auntie Establishment</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" size=1> </FONT> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR
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