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Letter: Scruples are necessary

By Mike Goodpaster, WASHOUGAL
Published: February 14, 2017, 6:00am

Media has a notion that liberals have access to the opinion of other people.

Propaganda is not simply biased toward some political goal. Other characteristics include omission of contrary facts and its application in a fashion that is unremitting and, as the past few months verify, has violence as its end game.

Supporters of the state Supreme Court edict to “fully fund education” dutifully tick through the talking points of politicians and the teachers’ unions, yet there is never an actual dollar amount attached to spending per pupil. Imagine, liberal judges ordering liberal bureaucrats that they must spend more money with a bit thrown into their re-election coffers courtesy of the Washington Education Association.

The assumption is that more money simply produces smarter kids. It doesn’t.

One wonders why student achievement rates have flat-lined and receded over decades despite ever-increasing funding. When Ben Franklin observed the human condition, saying there was never a good knife made from bad steel, he had in mind the state’s expansive education bureaucracy. One obsession this crusader class has is teaching transgenderism and evolving gender identity to kids beginning in kindergarten, and parents get to pay for the privilege.

We’ve let leaders operate without the requisite moral scruples necessary to the task.

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