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Hey Debora! Take an adult learn to read class. I guarantee there is a free one you can take nearby. Inner city schools in minority neighborhoods are criminally bad. Prosecute a few educators and administrators for fraud (yeah, I know they won't).

Legislators! Pass laws that allow schools to deal with students with unmanageable conduct. Sorry, some people cannot be helped and they disrupt the classroom for those who want to learn. If you can't throw the disruptors out, put them all in a big room called Special First Grade and leave them there until they are old enough to expel. Don't promote them to second grade.

The education system has been infiltrated, subverted, and destroyed. Yes, destroyed. The current institutions are like zombies. Animated corpses of an education system. Students who do learn to read are de facto home schooled while attending the zombie schools.

So it's not something to be fixed by electing conservatives to the school board, because there really are no government schools, just zombies wearing the bodies of their victims.

It has to start again from scratch. Home school or cooperative schools among the like minded.

This letter I wrote discusses the primary reason we and my two boy’s families may soon end up in Florida or Texas. In Oregon the people who write this nonsense have a super majority in the legislature.

From: Lars Larson Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 1:47 PM To: Retain Mike Subject: Re: Eliminating Educational Standards

Pretty crazy isn't it?

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 1:44 PM Retain Mike wrote:

As a new school year begins, students will no longer be required to demonstrate skills in reading, writing, and math. For the next five years, an Oregon high school diploma will be no guarantee of academic achievement, but only of participation in a system with undefined parameters. The legislators, school districts, and governor supporting Senate Bill 744 saw that this “will benefit Oregon’s Black, Latino, Latina, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color”.

So now we have moved to the position held by many 19th century abolitionists. When I read The Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass, one passage always stayed with me. After speaking to an abolitionist audience, Douglass considered the evening a great success, because he concluded his talk believing these people were convinced, he was equally human with them. He mentioned this as a significant event, because even the strongest supporters of black freedom questioned whether these people were as fully human. If educators would treat these people as individuals, they would design programs allowing an opportunity for commensurate achievement.

I remember Dr. Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character…..little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”

I guess the statement still makes sense to me.