I'm with you on this one Tom. I've been advocating state takeover but that's no great solution either. I think this is a better way to go. Bottom line is that this is so broken there's no fixing it as it is today. The reccomendation you have been advocating, and now apparently the APP is, seems like a viable solution to proving better learning opportunities for APP kids.
And Werner, I would tend to believe it is better to provide a good educational opportunity regionally then to fail our kids because we are worried about the "identity of a community's children" being sacrificed. How many decades does it take to demonstrate that this school system will not solve it's own problems. How many generations of kids should we sacrifice to keep local control? What is the community identity left for these kids by a failed school system? Tom makes a good point below about the other towns who don't have their own HS - doesn't seem to be a problem there. So why would it be for our kids? --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right Werner, because kids from Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Interlaken and > the rest suffer such great identity problems from being bused out of > their towms to go school. You can just see it in the way kids from > those towns struggle in life. Just no identity to be proud of. > > Good grief. > > Let me tell you something right now. The worst thing that could > happen to this debate is to let psychobabble about community identity > obfuscate this issue. > > How many generations of Asbury Park kids would you like to see suffer > in the name of this identity issue you raise? > > Besides, pride comes from being a part of something good. This school > situation is not good for them. > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "wernerapnj" <wernerapnj@> wrote: > > > > Close the HS ? > > > > What a terrible idea. The identity of a community's children and > young adults is tied to the > > educational system. Bus them out of town, make really feel like they > are not wanted here? > > > > Certainly there are better social solutions that closure. > Privatization was discussed here, a > > 'high tech' and vocational school was proposed by me. > > > > Werner > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4It09A/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/Y2tolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
