Perhaps you are right about understating the problem.
Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston shared some depressing (sorry)
information on his blog today.
http://tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/UBEN-8AGMUZ?OpenDocument
So here is a question. How do we help the independent school leadership
community stand up and show leadership and responsibility on this issue? I
suspect many want to but don't know how.
Fred
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Peter Gow <pgow@bcdschool.org> wrote:
> Huge harm, I'd say, and I fear this interview even understates it.
>
> There are days when it feels like living in the last century or so of the
> Roman empire; maybe that's just gray October talking, with some very
> strange
> political doings afoot, but those who make economic forecasts don't seem to
> be talking about a return to rosier days while at the same time the biggest
> money seems to be getting, if anything, a bit bigger as the rest of the
> world looks for ways to tighten its collective belt.
>
> And we're all educatin' as fast and hard as we can, with every school
> website awash in words like leadership and responsibility. Hope there's
> really enough substance behind those words to offer some real hope of real
> change before the lights start growing dim.
>
> Back to proofreading letters of recommendation. I promise to take a deep
> breath and find something to laugh about before the day is through; being
> around kids tends to help in that regard.
>
> Cheers--Peter Gow
>
>
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