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AT THE risk of inviting the wrath of a passle of pedagogues, and parents too, this newspaper would like to make one more plea for less emotionalism, less demagoguery, and far, far less self-righteousness in the annual discussion (explosion?) about county school budgets, the 1975 version of which is now under a full head of steam in the counties hereabouts.
The “risk” is mentioned because, alas, it seems that everyone who has the temerity to raise a slightly contrary voice where the school people’s budget demands are concerned marks himself as fair game for accusations of knownothingism, anti - intellectualism, anti-kid, and just general grouch. People get teary-eyed and husky-voiced at budget hearings, professing their support of every single red solitary cent in the school budget requests, and anybody who dares question this passion for fiscal open-handedness is bound to be an anti-social, parsimonious, backsliding Neanderthal—at least.
WELL, THERE are few public officials we’ve met who even impart a suspicion of being against education (unless it’s a too detailed knowledge of some of their own activities), and the chances of a politician actually voting “against” education are even more remote. Support of education is one of the most deeply instilled articles of faith in the American political system, and advocates of more educational spending know it.
But why shouldn’t some of these same office holders raise
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