The demagogic educational policies of Phyllis Schlafly, Phillip Schlechty and Willard Daggett are no secret, just horrible to read. Do not let them or any other Southern Agrarians take over Collier County. I hope you are wise enough to take notes and to show yourself through them that "facts" are manipulated by these spin-meisters from Tennessee. To place political and economic expediency above morality and to use craft and deceit to maintain authority and to carry out discriminatory policies is wholly reprehensible and deserves utter condemnation. We teachers are doing a good job for a very low price. It _is_ time to stop Shaking Up the Schoolhouse. It’s time to stop saving money on the backs of teachers and students. It’s time to stop changing the schedule. It’s time to stop the cuts of teaching positions, guidance counselors, and ESE special assistants. It’s time to stop the Thompson 3-year Consolidation Plan. It's time to stop intimidating, humiliating, and oppressing teachers and students. Collier County Schools, contrary to what the scores on paper say, is doing a superb job with the flesh and blood of human interaction in the classroom. We don’t need to reinvent our nation’s high schools. We don’t need to reinvent 9th Grade. We don’t need to restructure our schedule. We don’t even need any more money. What we do need is to sheathe the knife.