Re: [LM_NET] RANT:Anti-Scholastic movement in my district

[librarychickie <yasumani@VERIZON.NET>]

When Ron Wagner <Ron.Wagner@VANSD.ORG> wrote:    ....
"As for the concerns about corporate greed, I ask this: Why do we allow portrait 
companies to come in make a profit? Doesn't that effect instructional time? Why do 
we have assemblies to get kids excited about fundraisers - those companies make a 
profit - and it takes away from instructional time...."
  Ron WagnerTeacher-Librarian Felida Elementary SchoolVancouver, 
WAron.wagner@vansd.org  Although I think it was meant rhetorically, I can't help 
but think isn't that the question.  Why do we allow it?  So many often seemingly 
non-sensical things are not allowed in school.  I really wish we didn't use tax 
payer funded educational time for fundraising.


"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus - Greek-born, Roman slave/philosopher (55 
AD - 135 AD) 
   
  Kristina Politis Fallon, LMS
  Robert Morris School
  South Bound Brook NJ 
  yasumani@verizon.net

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