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[Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>]

Dear visionaries,


Troy Merrill responded to my offer:

My response: 
No deal on my part! I propose that you continue to call schools that are
governed by the community 'government schools' I will hence forth refer
to your unregulated schools as 'madrasa's' Deal? 


If the schools are truly governed by the community, then do you agree
that the community has the authority to shut them down? The reason I
raise the question is that such authority reveals where the true
ownership is. If the local community really does have the authority to
keep the tax-funded schools open, or to close them down, as seems best to
them, I am more than willing in this forum to dispense with the offensive
phrase "government schools."

Deal?