Thursday, May 22, 2008

Are we grateful?

Column in Worcester Magazine this week.

The gloss from Wormtown Taxi is most telling, I think:


I read this letter today, and realized that it had could just as easily have been written by a mother in some far-off, third world country...

2 comments:

Stephanie said...

Right on!

I will not longer listen to councilors tell me level funded is sufficient -- when chemicals in AP CHEM at Doherty have long ago expired so experiments fails -- when art supplies at Burncoat can be 20 years old -- when my daughter's Science textbook in third grade is so obtuse and poorly written (and 13 years old) that she has decided she dislikes Science (which she once loved).

ENOUGH ALREADY.

Worcesterites -- we need to UNITE be stop BEING AFRAID OF SUCCESS and CHANGE FOR THE BETTER -- and START BECOMING a REAL SERIOUS PLACE TO LIVE.

Jeff Barnard said...

Often enough, I'm in this position where I haven't put on my editor's hat until after I've posted...

Anyway, that was a really great letter in WoMag. All the time and effort you're putting into this is for the greatest of all causes in this world: the future of our children.

Our future IS our children.