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Better Education versus The Best education? "We need to increase incomes in Adair and better education is a very good start,' writer says. Parents are a key to better education. But that's not all. 'A well-rounded education takes money, time, and energy and involves parents, teachers, and educational leaders. To improve education, it will take the whole of Adair County, working together,' he says, and notes efforts hamstrung by cumbersome bureaucracy resulting in inflated construction costs and needless delays imposed by Frankfort. Our guest commentator calls for complete overhaul of the Kentucky Department of Education, from top to bottom, a suggestion which should elicit a chorus of Amens. -EW By Ralph Waggener A good education is something we All need. The biggest problem is with getting more people to understand the difference between Good and JUST AN EDUCATION yes there's a big difference on the skills of the educator and the quality of learning. Best educators need to be recognized to keep them motivated The best educators need to be recognized in many ways to keep them motivated and the buildings they perform there skills in is just a small part of keeping the spirit of wanting to be the best at their trade. To feel that Adair County wants and appreciates our best educators would to me seem very important. To be the best in anything you do, like running a race and winning is something ingrained in most children at an early age. To think that our children's education appears to be unimportant is a concept I just don't understand. Having best instructors can make a lot of difference To be the best at spelling, basketball, art or even driving is a learning experience. To have the best instructors can make a lot of difference in how you live your life and how you understand and solve problems later on in other subjects. Parental input? Yes, but it takes much more A good, well rounded education takes a lot of money, time, and energy. It involves parent, teachers, education leaders. Most of all it takes the whole of Adair to want the best for the next generation . Better educated children directly benefit childless citizens, too I have had people in Adair Co. say that they don't have children in school and that they should not have to pay for the education of other children. To me that should not matter because the better educated the better pay scale and the more taxes they pay to support Social Security that you draw.BR> Department of Education needs overhaul, from top to bottom The Kentucky Department. of Education needs a big over haul from top to bottom because the salaries and perks for administrative people and rules and regulations that are long past due being upgraded to work for the students not the administrators. The 20% that's tacked onto any school building for prevailing wage law, to say the least, should be illegal. Most of the State of Kentucky's counties have no unions in them. Why a county which has an average pay scale of 20,000 to 30,000 dollars a year like Adair County, would support some one from another county making 50-60 thousand is beyond my comprehension. We need to increase incomes in Adair and better education is a very good start. =Ralph R. Waggener The writer is Editor and Publisher of Columbia's influential Just for a Smile News and President of South Central Printing, a 31 year old business in one of Adair County's signature industries, Printing and Graphic arts This story was posted on 2010-12-30 04:22:06
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