[Vision2020] Say What?

[donald edwards]

Never fear Deb, If it make more sense, he actually attended Lewiston High School.  He may have a UI degree though.  His comment seems to reference a college level professor though he has step-children in Moscow schools currently. He did have a position at the University in a Native American Studies department (something like that?)  after his volunteer DJ position with Radio Free Moscow and prior to his current position at Walmart.

 

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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:16:49 -0800
> From: "deb" <debismith at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)
> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020"
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
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> Oh, my. In his attack on MHS Mr. Velarde doesn't say which schools he 
> attended. Sadly, those schools failed to educate him in writing, grammar, 
> spelling, critical thinking, and tolerance. While I am not the grammar 
> police (having some failings myself in that area), this set me off! Having 
> four MHS graduates in my family, none of whom suffer from the aforementioned 
> difficulties, I would be surprised if he attended MHS. Of course, with this 
> sort of "You cain't teach me nuthin' 'cause I aint lissinen" attitude, he 
> could have a legitimate grudge against a school system that insists one 
> learn things. After all the papers, math homework, exams, and sports we 
> helped (well, nagged) our children to complete, I know full well about that 
> insistence on learning.
> 
> I do see Mr. Velarde's behavior fairly often in those who have a "hobby 
> horse" or a soap box they feel they must occupy. They are so needing to rant 
> that, missing the opportunity to actually make a point, they instead become 
> parodies of themselves.
> 
> Tom, you showed great fortitude in not commenting on Mr. Velarde's foolish, 
> simple minded, ill defined, poorly written piece. You are a better person 
> than I, as I just had to comment. Not only do I support MHS, I support 
> proper spelling and grammar. "My wife and I's" indeed? And this would scare 
> liberals exactly how? And referencing Nazis is just the iceing on the mud 
> pie.....EEEWWWW! The good news is, with supporters like this, the right 
> wing-nuts are doomed....there cannot possibly that many complete dolts in 
> the US who buy into this sort of ridiculous "stupidity by choice".
> Debi R-S
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:42 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What? (local/recent)
> 
> 
> > "Why would people want their income tax, which supports education, to fund
> > certain past and present teachers at Moscow High School? I personally had
> > a current teacher who stated to me when we were undergraduates that they
> > were going on forien exchange. Why? Because they were fed up with the
> > United States and had to get out of the country for a while. One former
> > teacher used their distinguished speaker position at the high school's
> > graduation as a pulpit to cast their political ideologies. They also
> > bragged that MHS was the only school in the state to have a Gay-Straight
> > Alliance club. Glad to know that my wife and I's tax dollars are going
> > toward this skewed form of teaching!
> >
> > On a positive note you seem to have begun to scare the idiotic, pseudo-
> > liberal, NAZI contingent up here!"
> >
> > - David Anthony Velarde
> >
> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/ILikeIke/112506065442567?ref=ts
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I would add some colorful, humor-based comment here, but I feel that Mr.
> > Velarde's comments pretty much speak for themselves.
> >
> > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >
> > - Unknown
> >
> >
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