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 -----
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?