I am absolutely against the parental sanctioning of a skip day from school for any reason, except illness or family emergency, of course. The historical value of the Vigilante Parade wore off years ago when the economics of the commercial value of it overtook the educational value. Parents are going to have to decide which is more important, their children s education or the persuasive power of their children in begging for an unauthorized, unwarranted, unneeded skip day. And, just because you skipped 20 years ago does not mean it is right today. Our children are supposed to be in school 187 days a school year.
Every day is just as important as another.
If not, let's forget the whole thing altogether and present our future generations with thousands of uneducated vegetables. As parents and taxpayers, the answer is in your hands. Thank you to the Albertson's store on Fee Street for so generously supplying the Helena Civil Air Patrol cadets with Styrofoam trays for our recent aerospace education program. We then held a competition to find the gliders that flew the farthest. Cadet Senior Master Sergeant Daniel Warhank took first place with his original design and Cadet Airman First Class Kyle Tapp took second place.