Funding library is antithetical to school board's educational philosophy

To the Editor:
Regarding the Delaware Valley School Board's refusal to fund the Pike County Public Library: This is the organization that gifted millionaire, full-pay-plus-benefits retirees Tom and Candi Finan $800,000 as a going-away present. And they still didn't go away.
This is the organization that hired and renews the contract of John Bell and all the other "principals" of the school district, those who write off "economically disadvantaged" (poor) students, abandoning them as "historically underperforming" — those obviously not worth the effort to educate. Abraham Lincoln was poor, as were Alexander Hamilton, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Good thing they weren't poor around here.
This is the "academic" organization that countenances 60-plus years of existence without having created a scholar in any academic discipline.
We understand the district's priorities, which arise from the "business model" for education — you know, the one worshiped by the Finans and now John Bell: highly-paid CEOs and middle-management, high non-educational expenditures, full-pay retirements plus lifetime benefits, focus on the top, then releasing the "products" to take care of themselves. The problem with the business model is that, in extremis, it doesn't even work for business. Remember Enron? Lehman Bros.? BearStears? WorldCom? Subprime Mortgages and Collateralized Debt Obligations? Any of this sound familiar?
It was the business model of education, so dearly beloved by the Finans and John Bell, that brought American public education, once the world's leader, down into the category of Third-World educational systems.
My message to the DV School Board: stick with it, folks. Funding our library is antithetical to your educational philosophy. Libraries provide educational experiences, you see. They have nothing to do with your business.
Anthony Splendora
Milford
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