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<DIV><FONT size=2>Having worked on campus for six years, I can unequivocately
state:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Nahledge and yusage of gud gramer speling and punktuashun are
not needed for a colege digree.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Most of the time, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the
lack of writing ability by both faculty and students.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=suehovey@moscow.com href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> ; <A
title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] School District
Math</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Donovan makes
a comparison one hears only too often today regarding the levy and its
purpose. That's the pull between vocational and other education.
His figure of 80% non college bound and 20% college bound is skewed for a
number of reasons, but it isn't my purpose to mess with it. I would
simply ask:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What part of an academic education
should those not college bound forego? A good grounding in math?
So many vocational-technical careers are based in mathematic
principals. Being a good writer--one who uses literary conventions
(spelling, punctuation, grammar) correctly, in order to communicate
effectively in an increasingly interactive world? An
introduction to good literature and the mental stimulation it
provides? A sound knowledge of basic scientific principles, and the
theories on which they are based? A knowledge of the history, not only
of our country, but the history and cultural underpinnings of current nations
and the governments which preceeded them? Foreign language?
Art? Music? Are not all these offerings equally important and
vital to the proper education of all our students, regardless of
the career paths they choose, sometimes after heading down one path only
to find they really want to be somewhere else? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> It concerns me when people
begin to make significant distinctions among students and
their intellectual needs, based on educational plans that
could tie them to lifetime career paths they may later find did not
prepare them for the life they really want to lead. The
best education for students is one that gives them ample preparation to
sieze the opportunities which appeal to them in their 20s and 30s and not
be limited by the choices they made, or even worse, those that were made
for them, when they were 15 or 16. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Sue Hovey<FONT
size=+0> </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vpschwaller@gmail.com
href="mailto:vpschwaller@gmail.com">Glenn Schwaller</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] School
District Math</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Dr. Weitz is not only correct about the lawsuit because it is stealing
from the public, but he is also correct in bring attention to the notion
that the School District doesn't want to spend money and resources on the
80% of students that will not be college graduates and will be working a
vocational job. Is it fair to spend 80% of the pie on 20% of the kids? I
think not. MSD is practicing discrimination. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>PS. The poor nutritional value of school lunches are another
example of poor decisions being made by the public school system to prepare
children for a quality life. <BR><BR><B><I>Glenn Schwaller
<vpschwaller@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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page 7B, Tuesday May 29<BR><BR>Apparently the Whitepine School District
has "proposed to increase its<BR>School Lunch Prices by an amount that
exceeds 105% of the fee charged<BR>last year. The proposed increase of 25
cents per meal is 9% above the<BR>105% of the fees charged the previous
year." Huh??<BR><BR>2006-2007: K-6 $1.75 7-12 $2.25 adult
$2.75<BR><BR>2007-2008: K-6 $2.00 7-12 $2.50 adult $3.00<BR><BR>My abacus
tells me this reflects a 14.3%, 11.1% and 9.01% increase,<BR>repsectively.
So the grade school kids are subsidizing the adult<BR>lunches?? Whoa
Vizzies! You were right! When Weitz roars, it's the<BR>kids who'll
pay!<BR><BR>But wait! The proposed increase is "9% above the 105% of the
PREVIOUS<BR>year". This means the 2005-2006 school lunches were 85 cents,
$1.10,<BR>and $1.34 for K-6, 7-12, and adults? So THIS years' lunches
exceed<BR>LAST years' lunches by 105%, (holy crap! and you're complaing
about<BR>gas price increases??) And NEXT years' lunches will exceed
THIS<BR>years' lunches by 9% (or is it 11.1%? or is it 14.3%??) So
what's<BR>the "exceeds 105% of the fee charged LAST year"?? Or is it 9% of
the<BR>105%, above the 105% of the last year before the previous
year??<BR><BR>Was this written by one of the razor sharp legal minds that
penned the<BR>current levy language?? Possibly they were educated by
a<BR>less-than-stellar-can't-be-bothered-with-lesson-plans-yet-unionized-and-tenured<BR>math
teacher who, in the wake of budget cuts, couldn't POSSIBLY be<BR>replaced
by a young, over-achieving but mere 1st year teacher?<BR><BR>No, never
mind. I'm sure it's all legal and arithmetically correct.<BR>Hey, 14%; 9%
- it's all the same eh? Just one of those "minor<BR>nit-picky"
discrepancies that happen in these complicated
district<BR>documents.<BR><BR>Ever
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