RE:

["Tim Kinkeade" <kinkeade@moscow.com>]

Dear Mr. Wilson,

In order to better understand your position with respect to public schools can you itemize for the subscribers what you believe are individual deficiencies that ultimately deliver a "substandard service"?

Thanks!

Tim Kinkeade  

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> In response to John Davis: the "fundamental mandate" for 
>   any form of education is to educate. By every indicator we have, the 
>   government schools (there I go again) are failing to fulfill this basic 
>   mandate. And because they are not a market driven operation, they do not 
>   process criticism well at all. I do cheerfully pay for services I do not use, 
>   which is what a society is all about. But what about substandard services? Why 
>   should anyone pay for those? So I am not ignoring "the mandate" of the 
>   governments schools -- but they are.