Education notes from around South Dakota:
The kids at Sioux Falls Roosevelt obviously read the newspaper: the last three members of Roosevelt's Future Teachers Club are graduating, and no underclassmen are stepping up to join. Maybe we can all just learn from an iPhone app....
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Yankton residents are being invited to what sounds like a revival meeting at the Summit Center to discuss the pending school property tax opt-out. "Facts, feeling, healing, and education" will be on the agenda, the anonymous announcement says. When someone invites you to a gathering but won't tell you who they are, be suspicious. Also be suspicious when the anonymous inviters advertise big-name invitees on their first announcement, then drop them from the second. Displaced Plainsman suspects silliness.
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Mike Knutson hears smart guys in Washington calling on rural communities to create a "college-going culture" and says that's not enough. With a large majority of graduating seniors going to college, South Dakota's small towns need to create economic opportunities that bring those kids back. (Hmm... how about some sales-tax kickbacks?) Would anyone care to discuss whether we send too many students to college and not enough to vocational training or other opportunities more suited to their skills and desires?