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Show : V'V.: r 1 .t. iw .1 r . SsiKkkS! 4A Tuesday July 3, 2001 Guest colu idd Compares Utah public education to welfare who wished to be'educated by tutors or in a private Collective but who could not afford either situation,' That was universal across- - never was it compelled.: ' gyPAUlMERO, Sutherland Institute' V ' a half century ago, economist Milton Friedman wrote that there is a difference between governNearly it ' ... ments providing education and producing Providing education means making it available, fa ' all children. Producing education means operating and contro!--li:: it from turn to bottom. Under these conditions, literacy was near 100 per- -. ; cent and our nation gave rise to the greatest produc- -. tivity in fa history of the world. ;. ' : Today, the privilege it once was to be educated lias become an expected entitlement a universal welfare program of the worst kind.. A 'safety net faf the few : 'v' bureaucracies. fail-do- schooisystem are passed down fa classrooms from the legislature, the state board of education,- - the state office of education, local school boards and local school districts. Welfare programs never seem to have enough : ;,V ; , money fa fulfill their missions, V- . ne Welfare programs are Decisions in our public . : . : : cation-iri.tltafi:-- -. , ; - ' . - Time nfler time, public school administrators .ind. C icate thatthey cpuld fix thejr problems- - if only they had had become g staple of the many! ; V,:;'. v .Under these conditions, literacy has failed by more' ) more moriey: i V slates that the legislature is, .. Special interest groups swarm around welfare, "provide for the establishment and maintenance":; : than 20 percent across the board and,' despite pouring'.-- ; : !( billions of doHars into the system, we. struggle with : programs like bees to honey.; W-; (rf pubJic education, ; ; No special Interest group is more entrenched in How we got from the constitutional mandate to pro: 'educational mediocrity and delinquency.;;:;. ' Utah politics than public school advocates.. 'vide a public education system tp bur currentcircumr : : :'Some people argue that because education, like Market competition js not allowed in or around : stance of producing tin system en totb is no doubt s' v nationaj security, is in the public; interest, it can .only ; th be entrusted fa govemmentThis defense ignores the welfare programs. The unshakable opposition of pubstory of money, power and intrigue. X lic school advocates to tuition tax credits demon- -. alternatives to public school that exists and, on the One, thing is dear: public education in Utah today stratas how much the. established system despises whole, .educate children more effectively. . . .hardly resembles the system intended more than 100 ' :V v ; Suppose we Said pur ufamate gjjal for poverty pro- -; market solutions fa schooling problems. . vy ; ;. .years ago., ' Of course establishment advocates of modern grams was not fa provide a safety net far people in ;. Public schooling i$ a form of: welfare. The only difference is that we all agree, with straight v public schooling like the system they helped to create. "need, but to place everyone on the government dole:;' But even the advocates would be hard pressed to ad-- V Despite collectivist efforts to tiie contrary, we have faces, that it fa notThe mere fact that we do not even see public education as a dependent or welfare rela; mit any similarities between the current system and fortunately avoided this fate. :;; ' J ; ' ; But we cannot claim the sqme thing about our.; tionship between citizens and the state n very falling , the one formulated, by bur forefathers as. expressed X X' we are as a 3 : schooling Educational welfare meant for the few has., about how 'conservative and constitutionally. becomes familial dependency.of the many.;;.. The most obvious difference - and the difference least acknowledged - is todays universal welfare ap- -: V If it fa unmoral far an abfcbodfed person,' who can Only when we accept that public schooling creates ; : and should take care of himself, to place himself bn a dependency relationship between citizens and the, ; ' proach to public schooling ; state wijl.we be in a positionto solve Ufahs education At the heart of the philosophy of public education is the foypment dole, what makes it any less: immoral , ' for parents, who can and should taka care of their , problems, ... the concept of universal access. ys-'But universal access for all children (Le:K providing .childrens education,, to place their families on. the Utahs Constitution requires that we provide public . V.-? : thb opportunity) was never intended to.mean universm education far any who. wish. It. Nowhere does it manpublic, schooldole? ' That we pay taxes to send.our children to public. date that government should produce that education participation for all children G.e.; compulsory atten- -; ' schools is little justification fa do so. We also pay ; or that children should be farcied fa receive it ;; ..; : dance).'-- ? '. :v Above all, the Utah Constitution does, not suggest The lltah schools of our forefathers cfaildren were taxes to support the needs of others on weffare. yet we ' : paid for privately: educating at home, using tutors, or do riot feel the least bit compelled to join their ranks: , that able families should place' the financial responsiLets compare the characteristics of traditional bility for their childrens education on the shoulders of through, private collectives, ; ..: Neighbors subsidized children from poor families 7 government welfare programs to those of public edu- -. the state, taxpayers.. .... The Utah Constitution V-v- 7' : . book-leng- . . 1 ME . . : PONT OUfTC MOT . ...DU : HUNSS. 10 ENOUGM WKTIOlME . . SMS 1MESUBEIESS : ; voa . ;: . : self-relia- nt . . . . - . ; . : . . . . Guest column J however small, that poor families cannot forgo.; Parents are often forced to make a cruel caicula-- : Among President Bill Qintons series of tion, choosing one Child far school, if that The others, are needed far unpaid domestic worli, farm faboi; orfa earn an income ninning errands; cleaning fables, sew-- ? last-minu- te executive decisions and announcements was the promise of $300 .million in grants for a pilot global school lunch program : a program currently touted by United States delegate to the United Nations George McGovern. ?;;: y Most of the money would.be used to buy surplus dry milk. the devel- - U'.& soybeans, corn, wheat rial and non-f-at The food would be distributed in schools, in oping world. vV; . ; supplied, js culturally appropriate. . : , Unfortunately, I believe the global lunch plan has another motive .. disposal of unsalable U.S. supplies ing Clothes or any one of the thousands of jobs that . V: at a time when world prices aio at record lows, qhUron around the wbrid.dfc'i;-:-Much as common sense might suggest a neat equaV; Food aid is far the most part an ugly business,, of tion between disposing surplus food and ending made uglier by its reliance on an image of charity, fa. hunger, we know it does not work that way. We have.' sum, residents in food surplus countries give food; decades of experience and mountains of literature on when our supplies are too great to sell arid world prices the subject are low. , x;;.;, food to lack far many reasons. access X We cease to give when.piices rise and our Igeneir--. People ; War is a major cause. Many of the world's hungry osifa is tested by tiie possibility of. selling to a paying . . good, right?; .'.V-:.- ' What could be wrong with buying our surplus food to send lo the poor? . Sadiythe profaam may do more harm than good. V - Will it help fa reduce hunger? X Our experience m the United States says not of federal programs fa provide free lunches at school, the United States is home to 30 million people v&unds . .With money, Tanzania can buy'cofn from Zimbabwe, for example effectively boosting the economy of; ' a poor country (Zimbabwe and ensuring that the food : . are refugees who are nowhere near shelter, let alone a school where they might be served lunch.: '';;V ' Drought and environmental degradation is another cause - crops fail leaving farmers without food fa eat . s market elsewhere:.;;;: ; . sell.-- X fail reserves can of the market ' When crops make up the short- -, '1 fall. Some of those reserves can be obtained interna--.; ' safeit:;.: 1. intersection.,,? The property owners in Helper struo-- , turesandcement wsJls thatyvill? be unslitly and devalue their property values.: ; And the state department of ' transportation will not have to-- : wait until 2003 Or 2004 to put id the traffic lights. ; . wont be disturbed by tbd .. ; The Utah Department of Trans- - portation officials still have time to mnke a change regarding the building cf ah overpass structure at the North Helper intersection, . The transportation department officials can save time andconfu- - Guido Rachieie X X : sionforthedtjzensofHelperand ' Price . public ;';issues rather than private persorialities or I entities; All submissions must be yerified prior ib publication. The paper reserves the right to edit letters not only to satisfy space constraints, but potential liabiUty oincenis. t" i Former President Clinton stated that he hoped the pilot program wont disrupt farm economies, How can an injection of $300 million into the market not .disrupt the market? : We are not talking of crowding out ADM or CargjH : ; who live in hunger,. 12 million of whom are children. .. tionally, through purchase or food aid donations.. .. ; Food aid comes in different forms. Some donor Will providing free lunches encourage parents to send their children to. school?;' countries money to .; countries give drought-afflictMostchildren who are not Hi school in. developing buy the'food rrf their choice rather than give food from' here. The competition here is likely to be peasant -countries are at work. They are a source of income, .their reserves, y-, on page SA) . :: . , Food aid levels xan best.be predicted by world market prices, not.tiie degree of need; r Food aid donations crowd other food suppliers out - . : ;; . .or .X: can save at least $10 million by ta tersection building an overpass. ; ; Traffic lights are cheaper and K8 8te r Editor: '; : Carbon and Pribe County citi-; zens need a traffic light installed at 400 South and Carbon Avenue; ... editor to the Favors installing . traffic lights at Price, Helper intersections Questions,motives behind global lunch plan By SOPHIA MURPHY - Miriufoman Media Letters X-:- v: ed . o;- V'. ' . The voice of Carbon County since 1892 . - iUlMiHUHAlipri . ' Kevin Aahby, PtMtnuuter Send change Of 'addrex to fast Main StrceLPricc, Utah 84501- .- PuMither . 845 SSShTr 08881 . s dCK&IOClMiDlKfaQf TueKyl slow ot Shirley StubbChriiu Kemintki : Lynds Barnett J V .. Mbs , . ' J ; EDITORIAL Lynnda Jotuuoa Jackie Andenon Richard Shaw editor i , Siihiafatkin ratecp centi pa copy, in Carbon and gmety $37, per year QPuntks, $40 in Utah and $54 outride of Utah per year by maiL ' Is EaUra eententa copyright C2001 Saw lac. All rights reserved. Pie part of the publication auy Ip In any fcrw with ant the t st of the Sue Advoeatee" . Internet:e-mai- I iWitly it l: edHortnnadxom, adssimadxam web - httpAvwwjunadxom 637-073- 1 637-271-6. , Advocate Receptionist Hows: Monday - Friday 830 a.ra. to 5 pjn. at 845 East Main, Price, Utah. - 174-96- Chcubtkn Telephone: (435) Fax : (435) Wednea- - i Office . tnd Tkil.. L.UL.. Publication No. (USPS issued twice week it Price, Utah. Periodical postage, paid at "Price, Utah, and St additional maUmg office PO Bon 589, Castle Dale, (Itah 84513. , Reporter Reporter OFFICE Linda Thayn 7 Darla Lee Lynda Barnett ppbjieation o M Crw V 8t lOlilL A ,Salci.- -' uaHified,lepli in '.v ;S'.; J., f-.- . . 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