Letter: TV exec no lock for school job

Sunday, Jan. 30, 2000 | 10:43 a.m.

Rogers says that splitting the school district is "dangerous" and that we'll wind up with rich and poor districts, with rich districts paying teachers more. Splitting the district may be like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, but "dangerous"? How? The Nevada Plan for funding education seeks to provide an equal amount of money per child throughout the state with more per student going to the poorer districts like Esmeralda and Eureka. How would this change if the school district was split? It wouldn't, and the argument is a straw man.

As for the remark that Rogers can get to the core of a problem in minutes, I'm not so sure. What is the "core" difference between our college and K-12 education systems? It's choice at the college level vs. monopolistic, political tyranny at K-12. Nothing in Rogers' comments indicates he has even a clue about the "core" of the education problem, and he's certainly had more than a few minutes to think about it.

If Rogers really wants to help education, he should join the growing army of people from all across the political/economic spectrum demanding choice in the K-12 system.

KNIGHT ALLEN