http://osawatominews.com/?p=1319 The Hometown Newspaper of Osawatomie, Kansas Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:16:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://osawatominews.com/?p=1319#comment-55 Mark Tinsley Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:06:02 +0000 http://osawatominews.com/?p=1319#comment-55 You wrote a superb article and the use of "Robin Hood in Reverse" surely won't be lost on your reading audience that more than likely heard or amazingly read the novel, "Robin Hood" at least once during their upbringing. My opinion of what the Kansans are seeing out of their State Government, specifically of their highest executive and his fellow neo-conservative henchmen might be better titled, "ingratitude in forward!" My high school class recently had its class reunion. We graduated a few decades ago. The reunion planners of our class were gracious, grateful and humbled enough to actually invite and have attend, 3 or 4 our past teachers, as well as one of our principles. I guess maybe our class learned respect, we learned where we got our abilities to perform in society, we learned that what went around is now coming around. Now, I realize Kansas may have been unique back in the 70's, for we had a government that saw to it that public schools were at least funded and teachers could at least raise a small family on modest if not sub-modest income and retire with some trace of dignity. Maybe not all of our state elected officials went to school in Kansas and can be excused for being so "disrespectful" or ungrateful to public schools, their teachers and administrators. However, what would be the excuse of our Linn County Kansas Educated Governor? That is what I call "ingratitude in forward!" As you pointed out, "they have only just begun" and voters need to take note. What a disgrace to the overwhelming majority of us that depended on public schools, from this generation to the past century of generations. You wrote a superb article and the use of “Robin Hood in Reverse” surely won’t be lost on your reading audience that more than likely heard or amazingly read the novel, “Robin Hood” at least once during their upbringing.
My opinion of what the Kansans are seeing out of their State Government, specifically of their highest executive and his fellow neo-conservative henchmen might be better titled, “ingratitude in forward!” My high school class recently had its class reunion. We graduated a few decades ago. The reunion planners of our class were gracious, grateful and humbled enough to actually invite and have attend, 3 or 4 our past teachers, as well as one of our principles. I guess maybe our class learned respect, we learned where we got our abilities to perform in society, we learned that what went around is now coming around. Now, I realize Kansas may have been unique back in the 70′s, for we had a government that saw to it that public schools were at least funded and teachers could at least raise a small family on modest if not sub-modest income and retire with some trace of dignity. Maybe not all of our state elected officials went to school in Kansas and can be excused for being so “disrespectful” or ungrateful to public schools, their teachers and administrators. However, what would be the excuse of our Linn County Kansas Educated Governor?
That is what I call “ingratitude in forward!” As you pointed out, “they have only just begun” and voters need to take note. What a disgrace to the overwhelming majority of us that depended on public schools, from this generation to the past century of generations.

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