Fullmer gains support

Tonight, thanks to Sally Fullmer and Deana Brower, candidates for the Spokane Public Schools board, I got an education. I witnessed a clash between humility and pride, transparency and smoke and mirrors, courage and capitulation, the value of the individual child and the collectivist agenda of more highly paid bureaucrats, personal responsibility vs. community bailouts (levies), respect for parents, teachers and taxpayers vs. union muscle and statist programs reinforcing the status quo, a heart to serve vs. a zealot for an ambitious agenda.

C.S. Lewis, the Oxford scholar and member of the English faculty at Oxford, said it best: “The old education initiates, the new conditions. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly, the new deals with them more as the poultry – keeper deals with young birds – making them thus and thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation – men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.”

Sally, I know you’re watching my back, my children and my property. You’ve earned my respect and my vote!

John Beal

Spokane