Although I'm sure the outraged masses are sick of beating a dead horse over Bryan Dahl's column about injecting choice into schools ("Teachers' unions are to blame for lax improvement in public schools" SN 12/1), I'd like to voice my support of the author.

I'm certain Dahl had his facts straight - it's not like he said anything extremely off-the-wall. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to point out that this campus - full of teacher education majors and professors themselves - is going to be a little biased toward anyone who makes the slightest crack at teachers.

I think Dahl makes an excellent point - that throwing more money at schools does not (and has never) helped them. Rather, there needs to be some other option, and I for one am very receptive to ideas like injecting more choice into the school system.

Until hordes of MEA cronies, journalism professors and education students think of another option besides flushing money into school districts, they should work out a counter-argument rather than baselessly attacking Dahl's reporting style. In fact, for his next article, I think The State News should give Dahl a full-page spread so he can give all the facts on the issue.

Bradley Wilson
political theory and
constitutional democracy junior