Laconia School Board to spend more? Why?
I noticed this is the Wednesday (8/15) in the Laconia Daily Sun at the end of the headline article “Laconia High underclassmen to be confined to campus for lunch”. The part that struck me was this:
Como se dice “detention?
My high school and college Spanish is quite rusty (now, sigh, about 30 years in the past), but I believe it means
How do you say “detention” in Spanish?
The text of the article is:
Based on advice from the School Board association, the board added language to the Student Rights and Responsibilities policy, which was given a first reading at the board meeting. The new language states that the Parent-Student Handbook “will be made available in another language or presented orally upon request.”
Oh boy – this could get expensive. Are they opening up a Pandora's box such that like large cities, the School Board will be spending lots of taxpayer money for not a whole lot of reason? Sure, it sounds nice and all, but are they committing other peoples' money, for example, for an Urdu translation in case that comes up? After all, do it for one, the fairness police will say, you gotta do it for all!
And let me throw this out – the question that should be asked often but some cringe and others snarl when it is uttered “what's the cost / benefit ratio for this? In other words, can you “real world” justify this?
I guess my 'real world' example is over at Lowe's. If they really wanted to be dual language, they picked the wrong one – it should have been French! Really, out of entire population of the Lakes Region, how many Spanish-only customers are there really?
I think Scott Vachon, the lone School Board member to be openly against this, may have a lonely time of it....
I'll see what the School Board Association has to say on this (as it was cited in the article)....let's see if it has been firewalled so that the “masses” can't get in.
Hey, since our taxes pay for the SAU, and the Gilford School Board has members, you think that they'll lend me a username and password for a while in case it is?
Naw, didn't think so....
