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Show Thursday, February 1, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 3 School choice offers true education Public Notice Editor: True education, said David 0. McKay, "does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, litera-ture, or art, but in the development de-velopment of character. True education awakens a desire to conserve health by keeping the body clean and undefiled. True education edu-cation trains in self-denial and self-mastery. True education regulates regu-lates the temper, subdues passion, and makes obedience obe-dience to social laws and moral order a guiding principle of life. It develops devel-ops reason and inculcates faith in the living God as the eternal, loving Father of all." We look in vain for such education among the nation's government-monopoly government-monopoly public school system, which explains the exodus from that system. sys-tem. In many ways, public pub-lic schooling is no longer synonymous with education. educa-tion. Horace Mann's promise prom-ise of secular salvation through coercive taxation taxa-tion and compulsory attendance at-tendance has proven hollow, hol-low, and the myths perpetuated per-petuated by public school apologists are beginning to rust. Rather than detract from educational efforts, legislative bills providing provid-ing for school choice would return educational education-al oversight to parents, where it belongs. As the LDS Church stated in its Church Educational System Sys-tem Policy Statement of Nov. 16, 2002, "The manner man-ner of education is considered con-sidered to be the parent's decision." It is the responsibility responsibil-ity of parents to bring up their children in light and . truth something that government schools has proven woefully incapable incapa-ble of doing. We kid ourselves if we think public school children aren't getting religion, despite the fact that a local junior high school student was sent home recently for the egregious act of wearing a "CTR" T-shirt. In the words of Boyd K. Packer, "Moral values are being neglected and prayer expelled ex-pelled from public schools on the pretext that moral teaching belongs to religion. reli-gion. At the same time, atheism, the secular religion, reli-gion, is admitted to class, and our youngsters are proselyted to a conduct without morality." One Utah public school apologist recently opined that "marginal and extreme ex-treme political, social, and religious views and practices" prac-tices" would proliferate as result of school choice. Such nonsense is laughable laugh-able given that our public pub-lic school system is held hostage by the extreme views of a judicial oligarchy oligar-chy that, over the past five decades, has stripped American education of its spiritual birthright. If Utah embraces school choice, what happens, then, to the sacrosanct core curriculum, the so-called so-called educational standards, stan-dards, and the scores on standardized tests? They improve, of course. Improvement, advancement advance-ment and innovation occur oc-cur every time competition competi-tion is unleashed. The fact that students in the school with which I am associated average above the 80th percentile in standardized testing evidences that fact. As for the myth that private pri-vate schools are the playground play-ground of the wealthy elite, I invite you to pur school's 100-year-old building in Spanish Fork. There, you'll meet middle-class patrons who scrimp and sacrifice and take second jobs in order to provide their children with an education that welcomes God and the fruits of instruction unencumbered un-encumbered by dumbed-down dumbed-down government stan dards and politically correct cor-rect propaganda. There, you'll meet a mix or ordinary children who enjoy extraordinary educational edu-cational success. Despite the dedication of public school administrators adminis-trators and teachers, the government system is an aging socialistic failure fail-ure that cannot be saved by technology or taxes. Without competition and genuine parental choice, it will continue to set new lows in its slide toward educational irrelevance. Let's give choice a chance. All of Utah's children chil-dren deserve "a true education." edu-cation." No excuses. Michael Morris board of trustees American Heritage School Spanish Fork. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Notice is hereby here-by given that the Springville City Council will hold a PUBLIC HEARING HEAR-ING at their regu-' lar meeting scheduled sched-uled for February 20, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. to consider an Ordinance establishing es-tablishing a Storm Water Impact Fee. 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