[Grovenet] School Board Meeting Tonight -- Come support NAMS

[Steve Jerrett]

Neophyte Acronym Manufacturing Society

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From: "Jeff Howden" <jeff at jeffhowden.com>
To: "'Forest Grove local interests list'" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] School Board Meeting Tonight -- Come support NAMS


> Martha,
>
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>> From: Martha Khoury
>>
>> Please come to the school board meeting tonight at 7:00
>> in the District Office -- Central School -- 18th & Main.
>> We need all the warm bodies we can muster to get the
>> School Board to reconsider the NAMS schedule change.
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>
> I believe in the mission of the National Agenda for Motorcycle Safety.
>
> I do not support the North American Menopause Society (though at least one
> member of my family does).
>
> I think that the National Association of Multimedia Shareware is a waste 
> of
> time and money.
>
> I recognize the need for Nurses & Army Medical Specialists.
>
> I think the National Association of Marine Surveyors is a worthwhile
> association.
>
> Seriously though, what does NAMS, in the context with which you use it,
> refer to?
>
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>> As far as we can tell, this change was implemented
>> without parental involvement.
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> Little the schools do is with parental involvement, except for the
> obligatory part where adults squeeze out the little ones, feed, nurture, 
> and
> protect them long enough to fill the school's chairs.  Why should parents
> have been consulted on this matter exactly?
>
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>> It promises little potential to improve the situation
>> and much potential for long-term damage district-wide.
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> Improve *what* situation?
>
> What kind of damage? Is it real or imagined/theoretical/hypothetical?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>


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