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Education
Fallacies
Corrected
To the Editor:
What a week it was for education in the Rappahannock News'. Odyssey of the Mind is held at R.C.E.S. Governor Allen is slashing state aid to higher education. The library offers a program on schooling for black citizens in the days before integration. Delegate Katzen introduces a charter school proposal. Each of these important stories is dwarfed by an article nearly a full page long devoted to the opinion of one woman regarding education choices for her son.
My friends and I have all gone through the process of considering and reconsidering educational alternatives for our children, as, I imagine, most parents have. Few of us, however, would deem it appropriate to publish our personal opinions of schools or teachers in a newspaper.
The Rappahannock News is setting a dangerous precedent in allowing this type of article to be printed. Although most of Ms. Lofton’s comments are positive, names are named, schools are named, and personal assumptions are set forth.
1 wonder, during the course of her exhaustive quest, how may of the 21 “observed” teachers realized that Ms. Lofton’s analysis would appear in print? *
In the interest of fairness, I would like to address several fallacies that appeared in this opinion piece. I do so as a former teacher in the Rappahannock public school system, as a daughter of an experienced public and private school teacher, and as a mother of three, who has been home schooling for seven years. I support public education, private education,
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