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<DIV><FONT size=2>My observations were taken from letters, notes, memos and
other writings, including signs on doors, on campus.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>While some may call it arrogant, is it too much to ask of
those in higher education, students and faculty, be reasonably well versed
in English?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>A failure in the ability to comprehend others' ideas, or to
express oneself clearly in writing is ignorance and ignorance is the
first step to tyranny.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you, Mrs. Johnson, for being a hardass high school
English teacher.</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=suehovey@moscow.com href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=editor@lataheagle.com
href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com">Kai Eiselein, editor</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:51
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>I don't claim any of it is necessary for a
college degree. That isn't my point. I will say; however, I enjoy
working with the faculty members in my area, both in the public school and the
University, because they are articulate, skilled writers, and good
thinkers. Possibly you need to broaden your circle of
acquaintances. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Additionally, I do believe people who are really
fine writers, and you are, are sometimes arrogant in their
comparison of their skills to those of others. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue</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=editor@lataheagle.com href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com">Kai
Eiselein, editor</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=suehovey@moscow.com
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A> ; <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 9:29
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] School
District Math</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<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> </DIV>
<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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<DIV
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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