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Y00eaders " C]ournal:
Concerned about school board
Editor, The Journal:
As a former school board presi-
dent and board member with a
lifelong commitment to education,
I am deeply concerned about the
dysfunction of the North Mason
School Board.
North Mason School District
has very good schools with very
good teachers who put their life
on the front lines of learning for
you every day. North Mason High
School has the luxury of being the
ideal-size school at just over 700
students to maximize achieve-
ment and learning effectiveness
with a comprehensive curriculum.
North Mason's students are lively,
intelligent and friendly.
But there are dark clouds on the
horizon: Some people in this com-
munity want to ask the academic
question, "What are children for?"
Some want to quantify, qualify
and condemn this system by cast-
ing doubt, airing aspersions and
reigning condescension on the pro-
fbssionals who teach and adminis-
ter, and on the very value of the
children they should be celebrat-
ing. They claim they want educa-
tion that is "efficient and effec-
tive." There is a stealth agenda op-
erating here that would eviscerate
this district because they seem to
think charter schools are the way
to go. Well, we all know by recent
reports in the press that charter
schools have their own seditious
agenda.
These same self-righteous des-
pots would reduce our children to
a cipher, a black mark on a tally
roster or just a number that will
look good on the bottom line. Why
would you even want to ask the
question, "What are children for?"
unless you have some personal
agenda? It not only begs the ques-
tion, it demeans our children by
diminishing their value to flaunt
some utilitarian philosophy that
should have died at th turn of
the century. Our children are not
mere cogs in the economic wheel.
Our children were born of love and
must be treated so, with human
compassion and understanding.
As a citizen, taxpayer and as
a professional educator may I re-
mind the school board members
that their job is to make policy,
generate the resources necessary
to carry out that policy and make
sure that teachers, staff and ad-
ministration have board support
in their daily task
Are they doing that? Well, let's
look at the facts: Based upon their
published budget this year they
are educating 2,189 students at
a cost of $17,388,424. That works
More party flavors
Editor, The Journak
I listened in on a curious con-
versation between two visitors to
the Diogenes Society gathering
the other day.
"Can anyone explain to me what
the heck is the difference between
being bipartisan and nonparti-
san?"
"Well, I guess it depends on how
you apply the differences."
"That doesn't tell me anything.
Give me an example."
flavors available. Try another ice
cream store, a store offering a non-
partisan variety of flavors."
"Suppose that was the only ice
cream store in town?"
"Then I'd say you were out of
luck. You might try giving up ice
cream altogether."
"That doesn't sound fair."
"What can I tell you? All's fair
in love, war and the ice cream
business, I guess."
"And if the same thing applied
out to $8,089 per pupil per year
OR $43.72 per pupil per day OR
$5.82 per pupil per hour! Not even
minimum wage are they spend-
ing per pupil in this district. At
minimum wage of $7.25 per hour,
they should be spending at least
$20,209,284.
The board members need to
get out and beat the bushes, get
some more tax revenue. Teachers
are not the only educators. Board
members must educate their con-
stituents about the needs of the
children as well. Get a Bill Gates
grant or some other kind of grant,
and get business to belly up to the
bar so we don't have to import for-
eign technical expertise or export
more American industry.
The board shouldn't put this
burden on the backs of the stu-
dents and teachers by wasting two
weeks of their time in Washington
Assessment of Student Learning
testing. Forget federal financing
if all they offer is a call for "No
Child Left Behind" but give back
only empty-handed, unfunded
mandates. The board must set the
standard that is higher than the
feds and the state and take back
local ownership and responsibility
for our schools.
Life and teaching and learning
are sometimes messy. It's not al-
ways tied up in a tidy yellow rib-
bon. Sometimes people fail. Some-
times we try things that don't
work, so then we try alternative
approaches. How does the board
learn from its failures? Beyond
that, if you want a perfect school
system with perfect students, then
you'd better stat'out with us be-
ing perfect parents.
Karsten J. Boysen
Port Orchard
SPECIALS
OF THE
Force bankruptcy
Editor, The Journal."
Fellow Americans, forget
"Stand tall before the fall" and for-
get "Stand up to Bush (Alfred E.
Neuman)."
I have the answer: Contact the
Chinese Consulate and the Chi-
nese Republic and ask that they
demand that we pay our debts
to the Chinese Republic, which
would drive us to bankruptcy.
Then we would have no choice but
to bring our troops home because
we couldn't afford to pay Hallibur-
ton and all of the corporations that
are making obscene profits while
we have no health care and renew-
able energy which would take the
bread and butter from the oil in-
dustry.
I believe it was President Tru-
man who prosecuted corporations
under the War Profit Act.
I can't understand how the
Iraqis have health care where we
don't.
I can't understand why we don'
have affordable college education.
I can't understand why we are
not taking care of all our vetera
who served our country through
all the wars and peacetime.
I can't understand why we are
not attacking global warmlY&
which can be more life-threateW
ing than the terrorists.
I can't understand why we sul
sidize the oil industry and e
pharmaceutical industry wj.
they make obscene profits help
drive us to bankruptcy.
I think this country is already
bankrupt to the moral obliga"
tion to its own people. Let us the
citizens of the USA demand ths
China call in our debt and make
it a fact.
Earl Mallinget
Shelt
False innuendos
the children and women in Iraq.,
insulting the office of the pre
dency of the United States, callil$
a man an idiot who obviously is a
man of intellect, and so on.
Any valid discussion of a matter
so serious as the effects of pulli
our troops out of Iraq and coS"
ing home, with isolationist intes"
tions, needs serious discussio; |r
with facts to bear on argumell. s r
in 1aver, or not in favor, of cert,' port
courses of action to be taken. 2. t r
abuse one's argument with clichdJ :K:
(trite, unprovable statements)is.s
sign of ignorance, and those read"
ing such arguments should im e"
diately dismiss them as meanirg"
lesslvIen and women ofourar :
forces have given their lives a d I1
suffered extreme injuries !e
trauma in support of what o t
leadership has deemed essent
actions necessary for the safety 0.J
all in our country. To put our lea"
ership in a position of compromi' ]B
which indeed forces an exit date t:
be known by the very people |"
are fighting against, is telling ! [(O
enemy to stay the course, hold t r
line, they will soon win for they ]h,-.. "t
evil cause, because tchhooe
people will no longer
essary courage to
task, similar to what
Vietnam and Korea.
Editor, The Journal:
There was a time when men and
women who put their lives on the
line to prevent our beloved nation
from being overrun by hoodlums,
criminals, terrorists and otherwise
madmen were supported by the
majority of USA citizens who ap-
preciated that freedom wasn't free
and when those legally empow-
ered to manage our security forces
were respected for doing what was
necessary to keep our country safe
from coercion.
The most common means of
swaying others' opinions about
the right or wrong of any action is
to take a partial truth and convert
it into supposedly the whole truth.
Saint Thomas Aquinas said "a
small error in the beginning leads
to a big error in the end." All right-
thinking people understand the
need to conduct affairs at home,
and throughout the world, in a civ-
il manner by compromising where
possible and considering the least
violent manner to resolve differ-
ences.
What is really sad is when or-
dinary citizens are "brainwashed"
with false innuendos and insinu-
ations about devious ways, i.e.,
Bushspeak, ineffective govern-
ment, a hundred thousand humans
dead by our hands, Congress sup-
porting the President with a blank
check, a Congress that doesn't
give a damn, and support of Bush
in the maiming of our soldiers and
Jack Malli
shelt0
Religious troubles
Editor, The Journal:
Religion has caused so many
problems down through the ages.
I decided to have my own God. I
fail to see any difference between
a human being and a bunch of
monkeys.
Our great leader got us into this
stupid war. Now how do we get out
of it? I say stop it Brinu our troO
home, what s left of them, "
patch them up. _.
Boys need a father and gPthey
need a mother. Why can't
have both?
Mrs. Leslie L. Mille
shelt0
At the
of Highway 101
"Well, imagine an ice cream
store that offered up all kinds of
different ice cream flavors."
to a cafd serving up either hot dogs
or hamburgers and that being the
only choice?"
WEEK
108, just miaW [I
away from Olyl ][
and Shelte__[
"What are you getting at?"
"Wbll, you might shy having a
broad choice of flavors for a cus-
tomer to choose from might be con-
sidered nonpartisan. One might
say the ice cream store owner had
a very nonpartisan approach to
the selection of ice cream flavors."
"And how about bipartisan?"
"Same set of rules. A very bipar-
tisan menu."
"But I like chicken salad sand-
wiches."
"I'd say you'd better get used
to a bipartisan lifestyle or change
towns."
"My gosh, that's a scary situa-
tion. Thank God we live in Amer-
6/14-6/20 4
I 360-426-525
II "'''l" Madefiesh 00w2f00ctorY []
getac00oic ofony we ic W00--raHo00t00at ot
flavors, like say chocolate or va- of thing here. Not in any kind of
nilla." business, don't you think so?"
"Suppose I don't like chocolate "Ain't we so lucky?"
or vanilla?" Ferde Grofd I ii!r
'Then I'd say you'd be out of Union
luck. Those would be the only
®
Mason Lake Fireworks Ceas ROLL-YOUR-0WN Walk-In Humidor |
Simpson Timber Company wishes to inform $12 GREAT SELECTION Try our own
+ tax of Fine Cigars & ISLAND BLEND -
the community there will no longer be a
fireworks display on July 3rd at Mason Lake. The
private homeowner who previously put on the
display has decided to cease this activity.
As a reminder, the Simpson Employee
Recreation area will only be open to Simpson
employees, retirees and their guests. Have a safe
4th of July holiday.
Page 6 - SheRon-Mason County Journal - Thursday, June 14, 2007
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Y00eaders " C]ournal:
Concerned about school board
Editor, The Journal:
As a former school board presi-
dent and board member with a
lifelong commitment to education,
I am deeply concerned about the
dysfunction of the North Mason
School Board.
North Mason School District
has very good schools with very
good teachers who put their life
on the front lines of learning for
you every day. North Mason High
School has the luxury of being the
ideal-size school at just over 700
students to maximize achieve-
ment and learning effectiveness
with a comprehensive curriculum.
North Mason's students are lively,
intelligent and friendly.
But there are dark clouds on the
horizon: Some people in this com-
munity want to ask the academic
question, "What are children for?"
Some want to quantify, qualify
and condemn this system by cast-
ing doubt, airing aspersions and
reigning condescension on the pro-
fbssionals who teach and adminis-
ter, and on the very value of the
children they should be celebrat-
ing. They claim they want educa-
tion that is "efficient and effec-
tive." There is a stealth agenda op-
erating here that would eviscerate
this district because they seem to
think charter schools are the way
to go. Well, we all know by recent
reports in the press that charter
schools have their own seditious
agenda.
These same self-righteous des-
pots would reduce our children to
a cipher, a black mark on a tally
roster or just a number that will
look good on the bottom line. Why
would you even want to ask the
question, "What are children for?"
unless you have some personal
agenda? It not only begs the ques-
tion, it demeans our children by
diminishing their value to flaunt
some utilitarian philosophy that
should have died at th turn of
the century. Our children are not
mere cogs in the economic wheel.
Our children were born of love and
must be treated so, with human
compassion and understanding.
As a citizen, taxpayer and as
a professional educator may I re-
mind the school board members
that their job is to make policy,
generate the resources necessary
to carry out that policy and make
sure that teachers, staff and ad-
ministration have board support
in their daily task
Are they doing that? Well, let's
look at the facts: Based upon their
published budget this year they
are educating 2,189 students at
a cost of $17,388,424. That works
More party flavors
Editor, The Journak
I listened in on a curious con-
versation between two visitors to
the Diogenes Society gathering
the other day.
"Can anyone explain to me what
the heck is the difference between
being bipartisan and nonparti-
san?"
"Well, I guess it depends on how
you apply the differences."
"That doesn't tell me anything.
Give me an example."
flavors available. Try another ice
cream store, a store offering a non-
partisan variety of flavors."
"Suppose that was the only ice
cream store in town?"
"Then I'd say you were out of
luck. You might try giving up ice
cream altogether."
"That doesn't sound fair."
"What can I tell you? All's fair
in love, war and the ice cream
business, I guess."
"And if the same thing applied
out to $8,089 per pupil per year
OR $43.72 per pupil per day OR
$5.82 per pupil per hour! Not even
minimum wage are they spend-
ing per pupil in this district. At
minimum wage of $7.25 per hour,
they should be spending at least
$20,209,284.
The board members need to
get out and beat the bushes, get
some more tax revenue. Teachers
are not the only educators. Board
members must educate their con-
stituents about the needs of the
children as well. Get a Bill Gates
grant or some other kind of grant,
and get business to belly up to the
bar so we don't have to import for-
eign technical expertise or export
more American industry.
The board shouldn't put this
burden on the backs of the stu-
dents and teachers by wasting two
weeks of their time in Washington
Assessment of Student Learning
testing. Forget federal financing
if all they offer is a call for "No
Child Left Behind" but give back
only empty-handed, unfunded
mandates. The board must set the
standard that is higher than the
feds and the state and take back
local ownership and responsibility
for our schools.
Life and teaching and learning
are sometimes messy. It's not al-
ways tied up in a tidy yellow rib-
bon. Sometimes people fail. Some-
times we try things that don't
work, so then we try alternative
approaches. How does the board
learn from its failures? Beyond
that, if you want a perfect school
system with perfect students, then
you'd better stat'out with us be-
ing perfect parents.
Karsten J. Boysen
Port Orchard
SPECIALS
OF THE
Force bankruptcy
Editor, The Journal."
Fellow Americans, forget
"Stand tall before the fall" and for-
get "Stand up to Bush (Alfred E.
Neuman)."
I have the answer: Contact the
Chinese Consulate and the Chi-
nese Republic and ask that they
demand that we pay our debts
to the Chinese Republic, which
would drive us to bankruptcy.
Then we would have no choice but
to bring our troops home because
we couldn't afford to pay Hallibur-
ton and all of the corporations that
are making obscene profits while
we have no health care and renew-
able energy which would take the
bread and butter from the oil in-
dustry.
I believe it was President Tru-
man who prosecuted corporations
under the War Profit Act.
I can't understand how the
Iraqis have health care where we
don't.
I can't understand why we don'
have affordable college education.
I can't understand why we are
not taking care of all our vetera
who served our country through
all the wars and peacetime.
I can't understand why we are
not attacking global warmlY&
which can be more life-threateW
ing than the terrorists.
I can't understand why we sul
sidize the oil industry and e
pharmaceutical industry wj.
they make obscene profits help
drive us to bankruptcy.
I think this country is already
bankrupt to the moral obliga"
tion to its own people. Let us the
citizens of the USA demand ths
China call in our debt and make
it a fact.
Earl Mallinget
Shelt
False innuendos
the children and women in Iraq.,
insulting the office of the pre
dency of the United States, callil$
a man an idiot who obviously is a
man of intellect, and so on.
Any valid discussion of a matter
so serious as the effects of pulli
our troops out of Iraq and coS"
ing home, with isolationist intes"
tions, needs serious discussio; |r
with facts to bear on argumell. s r
in 1aver, or not in favor, of cert,' port
courses of action to be taken. 2. t r
abuse one's argument with clichdJ :K:
(trite, unprovable statements)is.s
sign of ignorance, and those read"
ing such arguments should im e"
diately dismiss them as meanirg"
lesslvIen and women ofourar :
forces have given their lives a d I1
suffered extreme injuries !e
trauma in support of what o t
leadership has deemed essent
actions necessary for the safety 0.J
all in our country. To put our lea"
ership in a position of compromi' ]B
which indeed forces an exit date t:
be known by the very people |"
are fighting against, is telling ! [(O
enemy to stay the course, hold t r
line, they will soon win for they ]h,-.. "t
evil cause, because tchhooe
people will no longer
essary courage to
task, similar to what
Vietnam and Korea.
Editor, The Journal:
There was a time when men and
women who put their lives on the
line to prevent our beloved nation
from being overrun by hoodlums,
criminals, terrorists and otherwise
madmen were supported by the
majority of USA citizens who ap-
preciated that freedom wasn't free
and when those legally empow-
ered to manage our security forces
were respected for doing what was
necessary to keep our country safe
from coercion.
The most common means of
swaying others' opinions about
the right or wrong of any action is
to take a partial truth and convert
it into supposedly the whole truth.
Saint Thomas Aquinas said "a
small error in the beginning leads
to a big error in the end." All right-
thinking people understand the
need to conduct affairs at home,
and throughout the world, in a civ-
il manner by compromising where
possible and considering the least
violent manner to resolve differ-
ences.
What is really sad is when or-
dinary citizens are "brainwashed"
with false innuendos and insinu-
ations about devious ways, i.e.,
Bushspeak, ineffective govern-
ment, a hundred thousand humans
dead by our hands, Congress sup-
porting the President with a blank
check, a Congress that doesn't
give a damn, and support of Bush
in the maiming of our soldiers and
Jack Malli
shelt0
Religious troubles
Editor, The Journal:
Religion has caused so many
problems down through the ages.
I decided to have my own God. I
fail to see any difference between
a human being and a bunch of
monkeys.
Our great leader got us into this
stupid war. Now how do we get out
of it? I say stop it Brinu our troO
home, what s left of them, "
patch them up. _.
Boys need a father and gPthey
need a mother. Why can't
have both?
Mrs. Leslie L. Mille
shelt0
At the
of Highway 101
"Well, imagine an ice cream
store that offered up all kinds of
different ice cream flavors."
to a cafd serving up either hot dogs
or hamburgers and that being the
only choice?"
WEEK
108, just miaW [I
away from Olyl ][
and Shelte__[
"What are you getting at?"
"Wbll, you might shy having a
broad choice of flavors for a cus-
tomer to choose from might be con-
sidered nonpartisan. One might
say the ice cream store owner had
a very nonpartisan approach to
the selection of ice cream flavors."
"And how about bipartisan?"
"Same set of rules. A very bipar-
tisan menu."
"But I like chicken salad sand-
wiches."
"I'd say you'd better get used
to a bipartisan lifestyle or change
towns."
"My gosh, that's a scary situa-
tion. Thank God we live in Amer-
6/14-6/20 4
I 360-426-525
II "'''l" Madefiesh 00w2f00ctorY []
getac00oic ofony we ic W00--raHo00t00at ot
flavors, like say chocolate or va- of thing here. Not in any kind of
nilla." business, don't you think so?"
"Suppose I don't like chocolate "Ain't we so lucky?"
or vanilla?" Ferde Grofd I ii!r
'Then I'd say you'd be out of Union
luck. Those would be the only
®
Mason Lake Fireworks Ceas ROLL-YOUR-0WN Walk-In Humidor |
Simpson Timber Company wishes to inform $12 GREAT SELECTION Try our own
+ tax of Fine Cigars & ISLAND BLEND -
the community there will no longer be a
fireworks display on July 3rd at Mason Lake. The
private homeowner who previously put on the
display has decided to cease this activity.
As a reminder, the Simpson Employee
Recreation area will only be open to Simpson
employees, retirees and their guests. Have a safe
4th of July holiday.
Page 6 - SheRon-Mason County Journal - Thursday, June 14, 2007
One Pound Bag
SURGEON GENERAL'S W/N/N6: 0ufftnq Smoking
NOW Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health,
IRM01t0
+tax I
Humidor Access€ "
Hand rolled-Fine
LARGE
[ GAS DISCOUNT
HOURS: Mon-Thur 6am-12am / Ffi & Sat 6am-2am / Sun 6am-llpm
The Kamilche ]Yading Post operates under a compact with the State of Washington "Safe To Shop"
TOBACCO PRODUCTS DRIVE-THRU OPEN Sun-Thur 7am-gpm • Fri &