[Analysis] Kosciusko Editor Ticked at Education ‘Advocates’
Mark Thornton, the editor/publisher of the Star-Herald in Kosciusko, is fed up with all these supposed “education” advocates who want your hard-earned money “either because they?re trying to protect their own jobs or because of their own deficiencies as parents.” They even dare to put innocent children up to wheedling it out of you! He whines in a column today:
Anytime you hear a so-called education proponent or school official say these four words ? ?It?s for the children? ? grab your wallet and run. Fast. Hind-end first, so they can?t pick your pocket on the way out. That tired old line gets pulled out any time they?re lobbying for more funding, and it?s almost always bellowed or shrieked in front of TV cameras from the steps of the Capitol as a crowd, whipped into a wide-eyed frenzy, declares impending failure for all school children if they don?t get $30 million more. My toes curl every time this oh-so-predictable scenario gets repeated. It?s just like when someone in sports, entertainment or business says, ?It?s not about the money.? Another tired old line comes to mind: Don?t tinkle on my loafers and tell me it?s raining.
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