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    Deja vu Dillon-style (none / 0) (#3)
    by designated conservative on Tue Feb 03, 2009 at 02:24:40 PM EST
    Wow.  I had an eerily similar experience after writing to House Speaker Andy Dillon (D, Redford Twp.).  Speaker Dillon had pontificated to a reporter all of the many reasons why he KNEW that public charter schools in Michigan were a lousy idea and should not be encouraged.  As I recall, he cited some long-dispelled statistics that purport to show charter schools as not being as effective as "traditional" public schools....  

    I was annoyed enough with the tone of his comments and the level of ignorance he showed to write to him of our family's experience with a local school that is part of the National Heritage Academies group.

    I wrote that our experience with this charter school was very positive.  Our children received a first-rate education, the teachers were motivated and positive, and the principal, secretaries, and even the janitorial staff were helpful, courteous, and got things done when they needed to be done.

    I said that he (Mr. Dillon) was wrong about charter schools, and that we needed more of them in Michigan, not less.

    A couple of weeks later I received a call from Mr. Dillon thanking me for my letter, and for my support of his position.  He said that he was pleased that I was on his side.

    I was surprised to get the call, and speechless that he had so completely misunderstood the point of my note.  It takes a great ego of elephantine proportions to truly turn black into white and white into black, but Mr. Dillon accomplished it that day.  I'm pretty sure that even after our conversation he still thought that I agreed with him!

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