I have listened with interest to the many debates over education and its funding. Of course, lack of funding is a problem, but it seems to me more a symptom of an underlying illness. We, in our fast-food, fast-fun, fast-results culture, do not value education, that which cannot be bought with money but rather must be paid for with personal effort and an enormous amount of time.
If we don't have enough money to run off crossword puzzles and word searches, it may not be that dire of a situation. Perhaps we just might have to re-evaluate the grade-inflation ridden public education system that produces at most "well-rounded" mediocrity.
Megan Olsen
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Salt Lake City