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Conway budget hearing

Why the right hates community organizers

by: susanthe

Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 14:24:02 PM EST

Massive cuts proposed to the Conway school budget have been a bone of contention for some time. Regular readers will remember a quote from budget committee member Ray Shakir who said:


"Preparing kids for an adequate education is acceptable," he said. "Preparing kids for a good education is acceptable. Preparing kids for an outstanding world class education is unacceptable. We have to balance the requirements with the fact this isn't an a community with luxury incomes, it's kind of blue collar. We have to develop an education as efficiently as possible."

Ray Shakir's one of those folks who got his somewhere else, and moved here to the NH tax haven for the wealthy to tell the locals how to educate their kids.  

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