The Mountain View-Whisman School District is back once more, asking again for money we just refused them in June 2003.

At a time when people are still losing their jobs, an alphabet soup of tax-drains cries out for an exception from reality. They just don't get it.

People today cannot afford to throw any more money into schools that have not been successful by the most important standards of any age: whether students become proficient self-actualized adults able to read and write well, do enough math to compute a loan payment schedule, and make change for a customer without a computer.

Too many "modern" programs focus more on political orientation and social behaviors than on real education. And whenever former students have tried to sue their schools for failing to educate them, the schools have won by pleading that they don't guarantee an education.

How can this be? What is the real mission?

Under No Child Left Behind, our schools are being converted into job-training centers. Faceless elite curriculum-dictators in Washington think-tanks have determined that too many people go to college, and that most of us don't need an education, we just need a job. Education is being blamed for social discontent, and happy wage-slaves have been declared the solution.

This is not about the intentions of our teachers or the District's board members, or administrators. They love our children, but they've been sold a bill of goods.

Questionable past performance, no accountability, failed experiments, no freedom of choice, a potentially bleak Brave New World ahead. The solution is clear. Don't fund this madness any further.

Defend our children: Vote NO on Measure J.

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