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Subject: Re: Ride 'em Cowboy

Author:
Ian

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Date Posted: 05:06:41 07/22/03 Tue
In reply to: Kris 's message, "Re: Ride 'em Cowboy" on 08:21:06 07/21/03 Mon

Point well taken-I think of all the money we wasted on a "director of instruction" for the distrcit, and now my position (6-12 band director) will likely go unfilled. We can't even attract a superintendent to work here. What I was referring to more so (and maybe unclearly) was that the Bushministration's policy of spending bags and bags of cash on defense at a time when education is hurting may be unwise. You get what you pay for in that sense. Obviously we need a good national defense in these times, but I sometimes wonder if these wars are being amped up by the defense contractors themselves...go ahead and laugh, but how do we really know...

Schools are caught in a no-win situation: "our students deserve the best (said uniforms and AV stuff)" but "we're not paying for it". If it weren't for private grants, many schools wouldn't have nearly the technology they do, and some (especially inner-city districts) might have no computers at all. I agree that grants are important and should be sought out aggresively, but they cannot be relied on as the only source of funding. I think we're getting back to a point we had on here a while ago, which is that the whole way that we fund education needs to change if it's going to maintain the quality we Americans demand from education. And if I had the answer, I wouldn't be here talking about it!
(And by the way, I DO like pitching out the Dept. of Education in favor of a much smaller office, perhaps not cabinet level. Those guys give us nothing but headaches with standardized testing and No Child Left Behind (which is a misnomer-while it helps special needs students of some varieties, it will end up destroying arts funding if we let it go out of control, hurting the gifted, another, neglected group of special needs students-a topic I'll save for another time, don't get me started).

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