We want to teach the kids how to think, how to analyze and how to find connections.

The three kids that have been doing well continue to do well.

Basically, taxpayers would pay $2.4 billion in higher taxes to get four percent more of our kids into preschool. That just doesn't seem like a very good bang for the buck. Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income families who need the most help sending their kids to preschool, this flawed measure creates a subsidy for rich and middle-income families that already send their kids to preschool.

It isn't necessary to Mt. Hood Meadows. It's already the biggest ski area on the mountain. The demands are growing, but the mountain is not growing, and we have to learn to live with limits.

The huge change is that we're asking our teachers to change the culture in the building.

It is potentially a harmful message to very young kids,