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- Thomas Jefferson
A day without sunshine is like, you know,
night. -
Steve Martin
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when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labeled as
defective. - Kevin
Killion
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Courage is the most important of all
the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other
virtues consistently. You can't be consistently kind or fair or
humane or generous, not without courage, because if you don't have
it, sooner or later you will stop and say, "The threat is too much.
The difficulty is ...too high. The challenge is too great. ~ Maya
Angelou
As board member
Paul Stone wrote: "In addition EEF (Eanes Educational
Foundation) is doing a commendable job of converting the
mindset of our parents from a "free" public school education
to more of a private school mentality whereby parents
expect to supplement the tax dollars with donations."
Now they are
working to convert the mindset of our children as well.
This
latest
fundraising attempt by Eanes ISD/EEF is considered by
some to be coercive. Further, some parents are concerned
that the school opportunities of children in Eanes ISD may
be influenced or even directly correlated with these
donations. The Eanes ISD assertion that EEF dollars fund
teachers is a ruse. The EEF donations simply allow Eanes ISD
to fund its wish list instead of prioritizing our
teachers.
Donations
should be completely voluntary and should never involve
children, their school mascot, and photographs displayed in
the hall. Children have absolutely no control over
their parent's donation choices and should not be used a
tool to that end. A child's "school spirit" should be
linked only with matters that are directly under that
child's control.
Eanes ISD
has disenfranchised plenty of children in the past.
Apparently, the district wants to send the message that
only those children whose parents donate to EEF (and have
a converted "private school" mentality) are welcome in
Eanes ISD.
That's the Eanes ISD
idea of $chool $pirit.
This
expenditure from the Eanes ISD wish list was never
approved by voters.
