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Oregon Connections Academy is a program that is CHOSEN by the students. The poor farm kid just said that people should not be allowed to pick and choose which school they attend - he would have no students attending OCA. He's saying one thing about education and doing another.

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I think the issue of pay for performance v. seniority is a distraction issue.

It's an issue that creates mistrust and breeds fear - two of Bill Sizemore's favorite past times. He and his ilk would dismantle secular public education, referring to the separation of church and state as a hoax. He represents a hostile-to-children attitude that continues to plague various segments of the U.S. population and crosses a wide range of socio-economic groups. But Bill Sizemore doesn't want you to talk about that. In fact, a lot of people don't want to talk about that.

It would be helpful to spend money on debate-instruction. Kids must know how to debate Bill Sizemore's arguments about everything from race relations to constitutional law. But he doesn't want that. He wants to institute (or re-institute) corporal punishment and ban the teaching of evolution. He wants a specific kind of Christian education. From non-Christians, he wants to hear only silence.
He doesn't want kids to have meals at school. He'd rather punish kids because they're poor.

Instead of talking about all of this, he wants you to talk about teacher pay. He wants you to get rid of the people who work the hardest to give every child the skills to think for themselves because they're the most dangerous kinds of teachers.

And he loves those principals who create the worst, most hostile school environments. He calls them orderly and Christian, though I'm not sure that Jesus would agree. Would Bill Sizemore propose a performance pay for administrators ballot measure? I doubt it.

So, keep talking about teacher pay - Bill Sizemore will thank you and he'll save you money...and then he'll really give you something to cry about - a school you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy's children.

Jenny

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