Re: new names

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

Walter Steed asked
By the way, exactly what is a 'madrasa's' Deal'?

Reply:
Madasa's are islamic religous schools widely attributed with fostering
religious fanaticism. (I probably have the apostrophe in the wrong place;
dang those government schools)

Troy Merrill


----- Original Message -----
From: <WMSteed@aol.com>
To: <dougwils@moscow.com>; <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: new names


>
> In a message dated 9/6/02 8:30:12 AM, dougwils@moscow.com writes:
>
> << 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 &quot;government schools.&quot; >>
>
> Is this not the case when small rural communities with declining school
> populations consolidate with other communities, or, as in the recent case
at
> Troy, de-consolidated and took their school back from a larger district?
Are
> not such actions done by a vote of the persons in those districts, i.e.,
> "local community?"
>
> By the way, exactly what is a 'madrasa's' Deal'?
>
> Walter Steed
>
>