It’s been teaching kids since 1853, but the powers that be have decided the money used to keep the school open is better used elsewhere:
“We made it through the Civil War. We made it through the Depression. We’ve made it through the recession. This school can make it through all of that. It can survive this economic crisis
But in the past two years the Napa Unified School District has cut $20 million from it’s budget and the closing of Wooden Valley will save $100,000 more money that Superintendent John Glaser says the district needs badly.
Here’s the $64,000 line:
“You have to ask yourself what is good for the most number of kids?” says Glaser. “There are no easy answers. No low-hanging fruit left.”
That is the mind of the collectivist. It’s not about what is best for a small group, or an individual. It’s what is best for the collective. While the local community might be able to support the school, the money is better used spread out across the whole.
Like Churchill said, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
I disagree with you on this one. If the school district has to do the best it can with a set amount of money then they will sometimes have to make the hard choices. And they really do have to do what is best for the most kids with the money they have. You could easily make a parallel to your own family I'm sure. You have a certain amount of money and you want to to the best you can for ALL of your kids even if means that one of the kids can't have what you wish you could give them.
You're right about the mindset of a collectivist, but I don't think this is one of those situations. This time it just looks like they're trying to do the best they can.
Your premise sits on the idea that the state should be in the education business in the first place.
The citizens are not given a choice. They are told the school will be closed and that it is the best thing for everyone. Regardless of whether the parents agree, they cannot send their children there anymore.
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My argument wasn't that the state should be in the education business. The fact is, the state is in that business right now and the people who are running that school district have a job to do and I think they made the best decision they could, given the situation. I'm not arguing about the system and I didn't see your post as an argument against the system.
The school will be closed, for better or worse. If the citizens want to keep it open, they should buy the property and keep it open as a charter school. Either that or convince everyone that the Dept. of Education should be abolished (it should) and take over the school at a local level. My guess is that the charter school option is more realistic.
Also, you have a freakishly large head.
As a third generation homeschooling family I think homeschoolers or charter school families should buy the school. Bear in mind I find schooling to be first and foremost a private family matter, followed by 100% local and not state or federal control. Being a Constitutionalist I often wonder why citizens ever allowed Carter to create the white elephant known as the Dept of Education. In the end I will never understand why any real American would allow their kids to be educated by the state or federal government, which I consider child abuse.