Re: new names

["Troy Merrill" <troy1@moscow.com>]

Douglas,

 

Community control means community control so, yes a the community has the right, within the rules that we have imposed upon ourselves so that we can function as a community, to close schools down.

 

I think that a community that chose to do that would have a very short, brutal life.

 

Troy Merrill

----- Original Message -----

From: Douglas

To: vision2020@moscow.com

Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:39 AM

Subject: new names

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?