Show r Readers Readers' Voice Childrens Children's education should be priority Dear Editor Your recent article on education funding funding funding fund fund- ing in the April 14 issue of Horizon Legislator addresses fundin fund- fund in has to write this letter I am unclear as to what Brent Goodfellow Goodfellow Goodfellow Good- Good fellow has against Governor Leavitts Leavitt's tiered three-tiered funding program It seems tl that it is necessary to have hav more funding or cut expenses in order to educate the children of this beautiful state Both Mr Goodfellow and Governor Leavitt have good ideas but what they are doing only helps government as a whole come to a standstill In order for government to work properly everyone needs to work together toward the same goals Goodfellow Goodfellow Goodfellow low and Leavitt are elected officials and they should always keep this fact in mind when making any decisions The children in the school systems toda today yare are the leaders of our communities communities communities com com- and the world tomorrow They need to be well educated to deal with the demands that are going to be put upon them If they dont don't have the math skills to balance their checkbooks checkbooks checkbooks check check- books how will they balance a country's budget If they dont don't have havethe havethe havethe the skills to communicate in English how will they deal with the translations translations translations in other languages If they dont don't have the computer skills to write a report how can they compete in the technical high-technical society that we are proud of How we fund the education of the public school children is a problem but our elected officials need to decide the matter and move on They need to stop acting like little school children fighting on the playground We could always alway send them to their rooms until they quit whining Lisa Nielsen general studies s t I E |