--- "Dooley, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Governor Pawlenty is also looking at this issue: > from today's STAR TRIBUNE http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4080246.html
SAM: I was very heartened by this article. I was especially impressed with the governor's eloquent encouragement for business leaders to "plant some shade trees" for posterity. I did, however, bristle a titch at the words "best and brightest" as if our current crop of teachers was devoid of the best and brightest. The other day on MPR I heard a feature about parents supporting Marcy School, which has been placed on the NCLB "list." Rather than rising up in exodus, parents are rising up to unite and find out what they can do to improve things. It's heartening to see that parents are more than "customers," a loathsome word used by the Mpls School Board to describe teachers (and I assume others, including parents, who have a stake in their school.) Changing schools isn't as effortless as going across the street because gas is two cents cheaper or going to Cub instead of Rainbow for a sale on Bing cherries. If you're invested your heart and mind in a school, pulling out ain't all that easy. Susan Maricle formerly of Folwell Bruno MN __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
