1. When we moved to the Lk WA school District, we heard about how good it was. After five years, I concluded it wasn't so great. This simply confirms it even more.

Posted by Yosemite Sam at February 5, 2010 05:59 PM

2. So admins at LWSD decided that an adaptation of a 200+ year old children's fairy tale couldn't be handled by today's students? Wow, just...wow.

There are plenty of things that kids need to be protected from today (and then taught how to deal with on their own), but I never would have thought fairy tales would be among them...

Posted by Brian at February 5, 2010 06:51 PM

3. It is both. The legislature doesn't provide ample funding (McCleary v. State of Washington 2010) and school district don't spend some of the money wisely - some districts worse than others.

Posted by Doug at February 5, 2010 07:23 PM

4. As long as we have state legislatures and congressmen interfering in the classroom, the parents won't feel welcome.

What we need to do as a state is to lay the burden of education on the shoulders of the parents. Tell them that the schools are their schools, and have them take control.

With the parents in control, they will have no one to blame but themselves when things go wrong. And they will have more incentive than anyone else to see that everything goes right.

Posted by Jonathan Gardner at February 5, 2010 10:09 PM

5. When Boeing and Microsoft recently complained that the public school graduates they had been seeing were highly deficient in math skills the public school administrators said they would get around to fixing this problem. In five years!

In a nut shell this is what is wrong with public education. They know they've got you by the balls and they don't have to give a damn. Is there any wonder public schools bureaucrats are the most arrogant bastards on this earth?

The mealy mouthed bureaucrats of public education modus operandi is to lock the children in their care into politically correct straight jackets, indoctrinate them on how to serve the state and discourage independent thought. A proper education is only a distant secondary consideration.

Posted by Bill K. at February 5, 2010 10:50 PM

6. Yes..there is some serious issues with the curriculum. No foreign language..no history classes, no geography. But that being said, our schools are SERIOUSLY UNDERFUNDED. We have one of the shortest school years..our kids only go for

And for all you naysayers, simply look at the numbers. The state funds about $7k/year per kid, and property taxes add a bit more. By comparison, you would be hard pressed to find ANY private school tutition for under $12k..and most good ones are in the $16k-$24k per year range.

Same issue with vouchers...even if the state issued them, they would only cover half the private school tuition, so only the wealthy would be able to take advantage of it.

Posted by Proteus at February 7, 2010 12:29 PM

7. It's that the school system insists on wasting so much of the more than ample funds it already receives.
how exactly does the second story apply to this argument?

oh yeah, it doesn't. the person who wrote the play is salaried.

Posted by mike at February 7, 2010 10:16 PM

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