I am in agreement with Mr. Colone. New and modern is not always the best way. For those of us who appreciate the finer things in life, I'd much rather enjoy an evening surrounded in the elegance of a restored movie theater than in a new impersonal arts center. In reference to the violence in schools that has been of prime concern, there is a story that I would like to share with your readers. That idea is so sensible that it is difficult to understand why people accept President's Bush's too simplistic idea that teachers must be held accountable to a national testing program.
Classrooms are the place for testing.
Professional teachers should be the testers, not politicians. Teachers should test students. Accountability is a daily thing. Teachers are accountable to their students and the students' parents, not to politicians. Hugh C. Lord, Enfield, Maine Lord is a retired teacher.