[Grovenet] Social Security

[Eric Canon]

--- Steven <NoSpam03 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Please correlate school funding to good
> education.

I have no knowledge, or very little, of how the
school district spends it's money. Neither do
you. Neither does your guy Rilling.

What I do have is knowledge of a very capable
administrator in the form of Jack Musser. Our
school board searched long and hard to find
someone like him, and I am not alone in the
belief that we are very fortunate to have him.
So, when Jack speaks, I listen. That's my job in
this situation. As a citizen, it is my
responsibility to see that our kids have every
opportunity at achieving a good education. Jack
heads that up, and he is of the opinion schools
are underfunded.

Second, we have a school board. I know there are
people on the school board who came to their
positions with concerns about wasteful spending.
I also know that, once on the board, they learned
where and how the money was spent, and they saw,
also, where money was needed that was
unavailable. I know our board is talented,
honest, hard working, and under appreciated. So I
listen to them, too. And I support their work.

You've been here long enough to have read the
opinions of Dick La Jeunesse. He is no longer on
the board, but, while he served, he watched the
whole shift from local funding to the state
mandated system we have now. Dick is much more in
your camp than he is in mine politically. We've
both read his feelings about how the legislature
has let down our schools, a message your guy
Rilling has not heard, or is unwilling to hear.

In short, I delegate to the school board and the
school administrator, responsibility to provide
for our kids. They have asked for more resources
to do the job. 

One other thing: education is a wonderful
investment. Creating educated and contributing
individuals insures our countries future. In
terms of what they bring to our economy, it's a
pennies on the dollar investment. It is not a
place to save money, to cut to the bone. Putting
kids in good schools is just smart.