RH Jones: Letter to Senator Gary Cates

From RH Jones, February 27, 2010

Subject: Gee, Senator Gary, it seems as though you are upset over an education award....

Dear Senator Gary Cates:

If this news article is true, and I think it may be, I beg to disagree with you. Perhaps you are not informed that: if we in Ohio do not have a properly funded Public School District System, we will have to spend more on public prisons. Ohio's under-educated are having trouble finding work in this technological age, so they turn to crime. Rather than hiring teachers, Ohio will be hiring more prison guards, police officers, judges, and prosecutors .

Also, your figure of $700-million education funding that you stated was being cut by Governor Strickland is "off-base". In fact, it is just the opposite. If you figure the terrible costs of failing Charter Schools, one can assume, therefore, that you are the person playing gamesmanship during a political year, not Gov Strickland. Your approach has failed in the past; and, in the next election, will fail once again.

Sincerely,
Robert H. Jones, proud to live in Ohio District 41

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/26/copy/senator-says-states-education-award-political.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
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