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This brings us to the second article we mentioned above, published two weeks ago in the Rappahannock News. In response to the school board’s request, we analyzed the report that’s getting so much mileage in the national press. In A Nation At Risk, a national commission concluded that American education is far from good. It didn’t recommend anything remarkable, simply that today’s youngsters be required to get a basic education, very similar to the education most of us got before the days of electives (which now make up 25% of the high school curriculum across the nation) and there be tougher standards for advancement, graduation and college entry.
It might help to reflect for a moment on the purpose and meaning of money. Thrift is a virtue inasmuch as people refrain from spending money on useless pursuits and direct their buying power towards expenditures that increase the quality of their lives and the lives of others. A reluctance to spend money in areas of great importance belongs under the heading of greed, the love of money for its own sake.
Here in Rappahannock we get along without a lot of government services. Communities usually solve their own logistical problems and cultural, historical and recreational activities are organized by conscientious private citizens. But no matter how conscientious, most parents can’t realistically provide a quality education for their children without help from all of us. Greed, not thrift or frugality, is what makes us begrudge them that help.
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