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Tony, Judging from your all to common experience with the disconnect
between a college degree and the realities of making a living, allow me
to render a few observations. <br><br>
First: about 20% of the workforce needs a BS/BA or above to run the
country. This has not changed for the last 50 years.
<br><br>
Second: the "educated" (college or above degreed) make most of
the policy. I recall reading in the 1980's "Preparing Kids for
High-Tech and the Global Future". We were in a new age. Of
course there is nothing new about American future-ism. What is new
is the wedding of future-ism to what might be called
"virtualism"---which means that somehow we take leave of
material reality and glide about in a pure information economy.
(Another of the disconnects which causes shifts in ed. policies).
Sue Hovey is a local expert on the waves/shifts in education I would
bet. <br><br>
While manufacturing jobs have certainly left our shores to a disturbing
degree, the manual trades have not. If you need a garage built,
your car fixed, the Chinese are of no help. The Chinese simply live
in China and in fact there are US labor shortages in both construction
and auto repair. Yet the trades and manufacturing are lumped
together as "blue collar" and as you know looked down upon as
uneducated by the "educated." But there is a deep difference
between the trades and manufacturing. Last year, the Wall Street
Journal pondered over what would be the sure path to a making a good
living. The Journal concluded that being a cog in the information
society was not stable. However, as you may have surmised
"skilled (manual labor) is becoming one of the few sure ways paths
to a good living." (Wall Street Journal). Recall a few years ago the
best seller "The Millionaire Next Door", which revealed the guy
driving a pickup, with his own business in the trades--- You guessed
it--the profile of the millionaire.<br><br>
I am a skilled manual laborer as a dentist. My real concern however
is not the economics of skilled manual labor , but of its great
satisfactions. When I was on the MSD's Board, the concept of
learning by doing and what you learn must have a context that students
can relate to was more or less rejected. A great book
"Clueless in Academe--How Schooling Obscures the Life of the
Mind" By Graff is a great starter. Bill Gates has shown what a
college drop out can do. However, there are many skilled (manual
labor) opportunties with vast shortages. One comes to mind the
elevator tech..a $100,000 job. However, I doubt the average high
school counselor would have much of a grasp on skilled (manual labor) by
virtue of their college training and society's bias: if you are not
college educated you are a nothing. The MSD which reflects the
attitudes of a University town is stuck in the same paradigm. Help is
needed. <br><br>
Another item that has proven very valuable is an aptitude test such as
the Johnson O'Connor. I used to mention this during my tenure and
of course the "educated" would not even look at it. I
mentioned the test as a very reliable tool that could be used at about
the 6th or 7th grade to help guide students into areas of interest and
where they have talent, when the folks at MSD would get stuck on where to
start and how to counsel for learning by doing. (they still are by their
response at the MCA's recent forum). This test is one of the
most comprehensive time proven tests (Since the 1930's) It
tests hearing, sighting, personality/phycological, common sat/act, manual
dexterity, color blindness, how a person reasons: inductiviely or
deductively, one's interests, word memory, number memory, etc.
Anyone who has taken the test, has thanked me profusely. My own
children took the test and shaved years of bouncing around trying to find
the perfect occupation. Nothing in the common k-12 school
does anything like this. <br><br>
What a shame it is to have folks/students who do not know what their
talents are and what occupations there are out there that they have the
make up to be great in. Most teachers are knowledgable. Good
teachers are intelligent. Great teachers are patient. Exceptional
teachers are students themselves. Thus the rest of the week end I have to
devote to learning Rapid Interpretation of EKG's. See you next
week. Hope you find this helpful, Jerry <br><br>
<br><br>
At 07:33 PM 1/26/07, Donovan Arnold wrote:<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><b><i>Jerry Weitz </i></b>wrote:
"<b>Give the non college bound a skill."<br>
</b> <br>
<b>Then when you are done giving them a skill, give the college kids a
skill too so they can afford to pay for their college loans that have 7.5
percent interest. I don't make $200 a month more than non-college
students, which is equal to my college loan payments. Think about
it.<br>
</b> <br>
<b>Donovan <br>
</b> <br>
<br>
<dl>
<dd>Public Schools for the most part serve a wider audience</b> and have
been given the responibilty/directive to deal with our present
family/parenting realities. With both parents working, declining incomes
in adjusted dollars, uncertain employment future due manufacturing being
exported, etc. I am supporting this levy with these
suggestions/imperatives<br>
<br>
<dd>Increase the number of instructional days to a minimum of 190
days.</b> Recall Canada is at 200 days (with less cost per student
than the US and the MSD in adjusted dollars.) Other advanced economies
are at 211 days (with less cost per student that US and MSD).<br>
<dd>Do not increase the number of hours per day.</b> This has the
potential of giving teachers more time for preparation and the kids more
time to sleep,recreate, practice the piano, etc. <br><br>
<dd>Give the non college bound a skill.</b> Pullman outperforms the
MSD in academic acheivement; with 5-7 times the amount<br>
<dd>of skills (learning by doing.), higher postsecondary enrollment,
higher graduation rates, much higher use of their<br>
<dd> university, more AP,and a lower cost per student. Look to
Pullman. The non college bound have a much better education in
Pullman. Let's do something about this. The MSD with $2
million extra plus the state now kicking in-places MSD's funding at a
high level if the state follows through. I don't have any
reason to believe that they will not. Luna so far has shown to be
education's friend. Education is bipartisan issue. MSD is not
the friend of the non college bound but could be.<br><br>
<dd>Use the vast resources of the UI.</b> This has been offered by
UI and rejected by the MSD. All requires a change in attitude,
something I found completely lacking when I was on the board.<br><br>
<dd>Have a 5 year contract that all in the community understands.</b> On
one hand MSD wants a permanent levy increase that is supposed to last 5
years before the next, yet I am deeply concerned that giving a
"bolus"of money upfront and a "starving" situation
five years from now is unfair to all concerned. MSD
will exceed the amount of funding per student than the schools of
Virginia. <br>
<dd> Thus funding is not the issue if the levy is given a
positive. Jerry<br><br>
<br><br>
<dd>At 12:42 PM 1/26/07, keely emerinemix wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">
<dd>I echo Sue's thoughts, and wonder if Kerry and others remember that
this is to raise the amount of the permanent levy Moscow voters enabled
by voting years ago for (I think) nine consecutive levies, whose passage
resulted in the permanent levy, but at the current rate. It's not
enough.<br><br>
<dd>keely<br><br>
<dd>From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey@moscow.com><br>
<dd>To: "kerry becker" <kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com>,
kjajmix1@msn.com, <br>
<dd>deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:32:26 -1000<br>
<br>
<dd>Kerry,<br><br>
<dd>I guess most of us do what we do based on our personal feelings, but
I wonder what has impacted you to feel a levy is unnecessary? There
are those on this site I know would never vote for a levy and regardless
of their talking around it, that's their bottom line. Mostly I
don't respond to their postings, because I know they really don't care
about the kids in Mocow schools. As Doug Wilson once told me,
"I wouldn't care if every government school in Moscow closed
tomorrow." But others may have legitimate
concerns. I tend to believe you are among that group, so I am
wondering what led you to believe Moscow Schools don't need the money a
levy would bring in. I want something more than, "cut the
fat," because I know there hasn't been any fat in the school
district budget for a long, long time. If you disagree, please be
specific.<br><br>
<dd>Sue<br>
<dd> ----- Original Message -----<br>
<dd> From: kerry becker<br>
<dd> To: suehovey@moscow.com ; kjajmix1@msn.com ; deco@moscow.com ;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:44 AM<br>
<dd> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br><br>
<br>
<dd> I agree. I would gladly vote for a levy whether my
children were in public schools or not if I thought that money was
needed. I just personally don't feel it is at this time.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
<dd>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<dd> From: "Sue Hovey"
<suehovey@moscow.com><br>
<dd> To: "kerry becker"
<kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com>, kjajmix1@msn.com, deco@moscow.com,
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it
again!<br>
<dd> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:46:48 -1000<br><br>
<br>
<dd> Johnathan Kozol once shrewdly asked the question,
"Why when it's investment in General Motors, for instance, is it
referred to as R & D, but when it's funding for public schools it's
"throwing money at them?" Just a thought.<br><br>
<dd> I am retired living on a fixed income, and my
children are no longer in Moscow's schools, but when they were, someone
whose children were no longer there understood my children's education
was also important, so they voted for those levies anyway. I plan
to do that for someone else's children when I vote for the levy this time
around.<br><br>
<dd> Sue Hovey<br>
<dd> ----- Original Message -----<br>
<dd> From: kerry becker<br>
<dd> To: kjajmix1@msn.com ; deco@moscow.com
; vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:46
PM<br>
<dd> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it
again!<br><br>
<br>
<dd> Keely, I currently have two kids in
the public schools and I still may not vote for the levy. Throwing
money at the situation is always the solution.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
<br>
<dd>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>
<dd> From: "keely
emerinemix" <kjajmix1@msn.com><br>
<dd> To:
kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com, deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd> Date: Wed, 24 Jan
2007 17:53:34 -0800<br>
<dd> >My goodness,
Kerry. It's a good thing you're not prone to<br>
<dd> >defensiveness.<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >"Sane" in
this context was a bit of rhetorical hyperbole; contrasted<br>
<dd> >to the idea of
worshiping God through a hope for the destruction of<br>
<dd> >public schools, it was
a parallel. As in, one idea that sounds odd<br>
<dd> >contrasted to another,
albeit exaggerated, idea.<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >How 'bout this:
People who vote against the upcoming levy are not<br>
<dd> >clinically
insane.<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >They are, however,
evidently unaware of the difficulties public<br>
<dd> >schools face these
days -- or else they're so blinded by hate for<br>
<dd> >them that they don't
really care.<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >Feel better?<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >keely<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >From: "kerry
becker" <kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com><br>
<dd> >To: kjajmix1@msn.com,
deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> >Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd> >Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007
16:57:11 -0800<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >"Saner people
will, we hope, study the facts and vote "yes" on the<br>
<dd> >levy."<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >Keely- Those of
us who vote Against the levy are still "sane."<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> >From:
"keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1@msn.com><br>
<dd> >To:
deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<dd> >Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd> >Date: Wed, 24
Jan 2007 16:21:52 -0800<br>
<dd> > >Thanks, Wayne,
for the info you presented here. You're right, of<br>
<dd> > >course, but if
one's worship of God requires them to pray for the<br>
<dd> > >destruction of
public schools, well . . . not much is gonna<br>
<dd> > >penetrate.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >Saner people
will, we hope, study the facts and vote "yes" on the<br>
<dd> > >levy.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >keely<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >From: "Art
Deco" <deco@moscow.com><br>
<dd> > >To: "Vision
2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
<dd> > >Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd> > >Date: Wed, 24 Jan
2007 16:10:47 -0800<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >The vapid
Lemon-O<br>
<dd> >cites:<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >"Iâ?Tve
asked this rhetorical question before: why, when the<br>
<dd> >number<br>
<dd> > >of students are
increasing, do the school districts say they need<br>
<dd> > >more money; and,
when the number of students are decreasing, they<br>
<dd> > >say they need
more money?"<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> >
>1. Inflation, which is greater for some things than
others and<br>
<dd> > >most likely
impacts schools more than many other activities.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> >
>2. Requirements from the unfunded/underfunded
"No Child Left<br>
<dd> > >Behind," a
Bush program which places additional burdens on local<br>
<dd> > >school districts,
but either does not fund these burdens or funds<br>
<dd> > >them
inadequately.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> >
>3. More and more parents are unwilling to take the
time to<br>
<dd> > >participate with
helping their children with their education thus<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> > >slowing the rate
of education and causing expense for remedial<br>
<dd> > >actions.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> >
>4. Public schools have more and more
non-educational problems<br>
<dd> >to<br>
<dd> > >deal with, many
of them wrought by inadequate/irresponsible<br>
<dd> > >parenting.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> >
>5. Etc.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >Also Lemon-O, it
is nice of you to pass on these nuggets of<br>
<dd> > >illogical
rhetoric from chicken-shit Courtney's web-blot as he<br>
<dd> > >covers in fear of
being found out by those he thinks he is<br>
<dd> > >preventing from
accessing his pathetic efforts to be almost as<br>
<dd> > >vapid, and
certainly at least as dishonest and hypocritical as you<br>
<dd> > >are.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >Art Deco (Wayne
A. Fox)<br>
<dd> >
>deco@moscow.com<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > >----- Original
Message -----<br>
<dd> > >From:
<heirdoug@netscape.net><br>
<dd> > >To:<br>
<dd>
><vision2020@moscow.com><br>
<dd> > >Sent: Wednesday,
January 24, 2007 3:47 PM<br>
<dd> > >Subject:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > > > My latest
installment for those under the ban!<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > Wednesday,
January 24, 2007 2:13 PM Right-Mind<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > MSD to send
out newsletter to residents regarding levy increase<br>
<dd> > > > Iâ?Tll post
a copy of this as soon as I get it.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > Iâ?Tve
asked this rhetorical question before: why, when the<br>
<dd> > >number of<br>
<dd> > > > students
are increasing, do the school districts say they need<br>
<dd> > >more<br>
<dd> > > > money; and,
when the number of students are decreasing, they<br>
<dd> >say<br>
<dd> > >they<br>
<dd> > > > need more
money?<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > Hereâ?Ts
what one local blogger had to say about this:<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > But in this
case, and in this<br>
<dd> >election, I think all
these<br>
<dd> > >standard<br>
<dd> > > > issues are
really beside the point. The real point in this<br>
<dd> > >election is<br>
<dd> > > > one of
simple affordability. The major industry in town (the<br>
<dd> > >University<br>
<dd> > > > of Idaho)
is in serious decline. Our Moscow civic leadership<br>
<dd> >has<br>
<dd> > >been<br>
<dd> > > > busy
chasing new prospective businesses out of town. Within the<br>
<dd> > >next<br>
<dd> > > > year, a
good portion of the tax base is going to move just<br>
<dd> >across<br>
<dd> > >the<br>
<dd> > > > state line,
and the businesses in the new mall there will no<br>
<dd> > >doubt set<br>
<dd> > > > up some
blinking lights to summon Moscow shoppers over. Ross<br>
<dd> > >Perot's<br>
<dd> > > > famous
phrase about the giant sucking sound comes to mind.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > Another
illustration that comes to mind is the one about<br>
<dd> > >champagne<br>
<dd> > > > tastes and
a beer budget. And<br>
<dd> >you can't chase all
the champagne<br>
<dd> > >vendors<br>
<dd> > > > out of
town, and then complain about the beer. As a simple<br>
<dd> >matter<br>
<dd> > >of<br>
<dd> > > > economics,
tax support for the MSD requires a thriving tax<br>
<dd> >base.<br>
<dd> > >When<br>
<dd> > > > you cut the
latter, you cut the former. Some might want to<br>
<dd> > >complain,
if<br>
<dd> > > > this levy
goes down, that it was the nefarious work of home<br>
<dd> > >schoolers,<br>
<dd> > > > Christian
conservatives, or what not. But this one appears to<br>
<dd> >me<br>
<dd> > >to<br>
<dd> > > > have been
done already, without any opponents of "government<br>
<dd> >
>schools"<br>
<dd> > > > lifting a
finger.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > No, this
was done by the liberals running the Moscow show. You<br>
<dd> > >can't<br>
<dd> > > > take a
chain saw to the orchard, and wonder resentfully the<br>
<dd> > >following<br>
<dd> > > > autumn
about the apple shortage.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > As<br>
<dd> >reported in today's
edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > The Moscow
School District is moving forward with plans for its<br>
<dd> > >$1.97<br>
<dd> > > > million
supplemental levy increase, which will go before voters<br>
<dd> > >March<br>
<dd> > > > 27.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > >
Superintendent Candis Donicht worked with the districtâ?Ts<br>
<dd> >school<br>
<dd> > >board<br>
<dd> > > > members
during their Tuesday meeting to develop a draft of an<br>
<dd> > > >
informational newsletter that will hit mailboxes in the coming<br>
<dd> > >weeks.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > The
newsletter will give a brief explanation of the indefinite<br>
<dd> > > >
supplemental levy. It also will explain how the levy increase<br>
<dd> > >works,<br>
<dd> > > > what it
will cost taxpayers, and what it pays for within the<br>
<dd> > >district.<br>
<dd> > > > The
newsletter also will answer other basic questions.<br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > ><br>
<dd> > > > Board
members discussed changing the time the polls would be<br>
<dd> >open<br>
<dd> > >for<br>
<dd> > > > the
election. Board clerk Annette Erickson reported to the<br>
<dd> >board<br>
<dd> > >the<br>
<dd> > > > effects of
a 7:30 a.m. opening of the polls that had been<br>
<dd> > >suggested
at<br>
<dd> > > > their
December meeting by board member Margaret Dibble. The<br>
<dd> >board<br>
<dd> > > > decided to
maintain its current plan to have the election from<br>
<dd> >8<br>
<dd> > >a.m.<br>
<dd> > > > to 8 p.m.
at the Exhibit Building of the Latah County<br>
<dd> >
>Fairgrounds.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > Board
members also discussed how to support and offer their<br>
<dd> > >assistance<br>
<dd> > > > to groups
of parents who want to support the levy.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
<dd> > > > In other
news, Donicht reported on the districtâ?Ts first<br>
<dd> >
>participation<br>
<dd> > > > in the city
of Moscowâ?Ts 18-month long-range planning process.<br>
<dd> ><br>
<dd> > >Three<br>
<dd> > > > district
administrators and two board members participated in a<br>
<dd> > > > facilitator
training session about 10 days ago. If selected by<br>
<dd> > >the<br>
<dd> > > > city, they
will go into sections of the community to help<br>
<dd> >gather<br>
<dd> > >input<br>
<dd> > > > from
residents on issues such as neighborhoods and growth.<br>
<dd> > > ><br>
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