Sunday, February 27, 2005

Taxes, anyone?

Education has been on my mind lately and not just because my wife works as a teacher’s aide. It (education) has been the center of much controversy in this area as the local school board tries to find a solution to a million dollar shortfall in the budget. (A little non-gift from Arnold) The obvious solution is for those who value the educational system to raise their taxes and pay for it. Either you value education or you don’t…there is no middle ground here. Nor should there be; middle ground is a place for people with no vision and we already have far too many of those.

As responsible citizens, we can’t be shirking our duty to provide for that which we value. Parents, grandparents or have no children, we all have a responsibility to provide the best possible education for the generations that will follow us. And that brings me to this subject…

Vocational instruction. Why, oh, why has it been abandoned? I know it’s an old story, brought up every 4 or 5 years and flogged in front of the school boards. There is a muted expression of regret that nothing has been done recently and then the whole vocational instruction subject is sent away to some obscure committee, there to perish. Why doesn’t W spend some time on this subject if he truly doesn’t want any child left behind? The answer is obvious.

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