THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, June 10, 1995 TAG: 9506090015
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
According to your editorial about Goals 2000 (May 31), Governor Allen should ``take the feds' money and run.'' The last time I looked, ``the feds'' not only didn't have any money of their own but they were still borrowing ours as if there were no tomorrow. As for the writer's trivializing of our concerns about the strings attached to Goals 2000 funding, it is hardly convincing.
As for your sarcastic guile in writing ``Maybe Governor Allen is right and the other 48 governors are wrong. But Allen's objection looks a lot like the triumph of ideological fervor over pragmatic common sense,'' Goals 2000 is nothing if it isn't ``ideological'' in nature. It is pure socialistic psychobabble. It's hard to imagine that anyone could read through the ``Improving America's Schools Act'' and not see it.
Governor Allen is right not to sell Virginia's children to ``the feds'' for 30 pieces of silver.
JOSEPH L. GWYNN
Virginia Beach, May 31, 1995 by CNB