Wow, an op-ed in the GDP I can agree with-Bill Shipp

[XanaDUer]

8/6/2008 12:01:00 AM Email this article

The return of a sad tradition

Over the last third of the 20th century, Georgia's elected officials, responding to the voters, at least tried to appear concerned about improving our state's schools. Granted, their rhetoric was often loftier than their actions, and many of our public officials failed to do right by our schoolchildren over the decades. Nonetheless, pressure to improve schools from voters was strong enough that at least some priority was placed on public education. Georgians knew that our public education system could no longer be a relic of the post-Civil War plan to attract jobs by luring industrialists seeking ignorant, low-skilled workers who would toil for cheap. Politicians responded by paying at least some attention to the schools.

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/main.asp?SectionID=12&SubSectionID=100&ArticleID=48763&TM=22435.11

[bunkerbuster1]

1. No so surprising, coming as it does from Shipp

He's the only moderately sensible columnist they have; while his style is far more subdued than I could ever muster on my best day, he has written a lot of pretty-good stuff over the years for the Hillbilly Rag.

Thanks for the link. I don't get the dead-tree edition of the Rag any more so I don't see so much of it (and my blog has suffered as a result).

(Very sorry to hear of the loss of Mr. Shipp's wife of 51 years, too. Bill, if you're lurking here, my sympathies.)