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Published on Mon, May 2, 2011Read More Letters to the Editor
Pet food drive a success in Granite Falls
Dear Editor,
Thank you to the Granite Falls community for their support during our Pet Food Drive, held at IGA benefiting the Granite Falls Food Bank and Canine Connection Dog Rescue, on March 19, 2011.
Thank you to IGA for their continual support.
Friendly Critters 4H
House bill 1443 will not help students, teachers
Dear Editor,
Please note that the rush to vote for HB1443 does nothing to improve student learning. Teaching hasn’t changed and teachers haven’t suddenly become incompetent.
This myth that classrooms are being filled by legions of terrible teachers is just that, a myth. Ninety-nine percent of teachers are highly educated, intelligent, caring people. We have families too.
Stop the teacher bashing and put the state’s money where its mouth is. The words and the music don’t go together.
Politicians love to say that children are our greatest national resource, but they don’t back up that rhetoric with dollars to fund education.
Bills like HB1443 will make teaching a job which is not only thankless, but risky as well. That ought to be enough to chase away all the good teachers.
We make teaching look easy because we care about the students and we’re gifted in our subject matter.
Heaven help the state when it reaps what it has sowed in the form of bottom-of-the-barrel candidates for teaching positions because of termination/layoff bills like HB1443.
Donna Shaler
Snohomish
Dear Editor,
Thank you to the Granite Falls community for their support during our Pet Food Drive, held at IGA benefiting the Granite Falls Food Bank and Canine Connection Dog Rescue, on March 19, 2011.
Thank you to IGA for their continual support.
Friendly Critters 4H
House bill 1443 will not help students, teachers
Dear Editor,
Please note that the rush to vote for HB1443 does nothing to improve student learning. Teaching hasn’t changed and teachers haven’t suddenly become incompetent.
This myth that classrooms are being filled by legions of terrible teachers is just that, a myth. Ninety-nine percent of teachers are highly educated, intelligent, caring people. We have families too.
Stop the teacher bashing and put the state’s money where its mouth is. The words and the music don’t go together.
Politicians love to say that children are our greatest national resource, but they don’t back up that rhetoric with dollars to fund education.
Bills like HB1443 will make teaching a job which is not only thankless, but risky as well. That ought to be enough to chase away all the good teachers.
We make teaching look easy because we care about the students and we’re gifted in our subject matter.
Heaven help the state when it reaps what it has sowed in the form of bottom-of-the-barrel candidates for teaching positions because of termination/layoff bills like HB1443.
Donna Shaler
Snohomish
