Our Pissed Off Parent does raise some very valid points in the missive about the new proposed education plan.
The biggest of which is why is the elko county school board playing a kind of Three Card Monty, moving students here and there when just building a separate Junior High School seems so much simpler?
If it made sense in Elko and Spring Creek why is West Wendover being subjected to this building legerdemain?
Clearly the new plan demands a second look and a second look with a little more local input at the beginning of the process rather than at the end of the done deal.
We are friends with conservative fire brand Janine Hansen.
We like the lady a lot even though some of her ideas we consider a little extreme.
A couple of years ago we shared with her an article, “The return of the Patriarchy”, whose authors suggested that because of high fertility among religious women and the very low birth rate of liberal women old fashioned conservatism would be making a big comeback in a generation or so.
She agreed that was a possibility but only if the liberals didn’t steal our children.
We scoffed at her then convinced that she was being paranoid.
This week we saw that MSNBC editorial about how our children actually belonged to everybody.
We aren’t scoffing now.
While we still doubt a plan has been written down on how best to make our children the property of the state we are uncomfortable.
Fertility rates being what they are we are producing the biggest population of single never married no children middle aged and elderly people in history.
Who is going to take care of them, 10 or 20 years from now?