John Shadegg said "It is a basic character of human nature to take possession of your own ideas. If you get involved in your own school and in your own children's education and you start working on making their education better, you are going to work at it and care about it. If you get told, no, we do not need your input, we have gotten some experts in Washington, DC, to write the test, and those experts know what the right curriculum is, so do not bother showing up for the school board meeting where the curriculum is going to be discussed, that has already been decided in Bill Clinton's Washington, DC." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 21, 1997

It is a basic character of human nature to take possession of your own ideas. If you get involved in your own school and in your own children's education and you start working on making their education better, you are going to work at it and care about it. If you get told, no, we do not need your input, we have gotten some experts in Washington, DC, to write the test, and those experts know what the right curriculum is, so do not bother showing up for the school board meeting where the curriculum is going to be discussed, that has already been decided in Bill Clinton's Washington, DC.

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John Shadegg

Arizona

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing parental involvement in education and criticism of centralized decision-making.

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