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Box 25, Vergennes, VT 05491 Dispatch arrived at my house on the he's just being polite. It's nicer than same day. Both contained articles on the truth: when he lies, it's not nice to Education Secretary Richard Riley. point that out. Taking both together, there could be Joan Battey no clearer picture of why parents and Apalachin, N.Y. why taxpayers should not believe the claims of educators who say they have no plans to control education and Educated Dpininn impose national standards. YOUR April issue dealing with pub- In the Legion article, Riley is quot- lic education reached a new low. I ed: "There's been a lot of criticism am weary of articles that quote the that Goals 2000 aims to take over the same tired, discredited critics of our educational authority of the states and public schools without any valid dictate to them what academic stan- research to back up their statements. dards should be in place. That criti- In the last international mathematics ." cism just isn't valid. Olympiad in Hong Kong, the United But in the Richmond Times-Dis- States team came in first. For the first patch article, Riley's remarks to the time in the history of the event all six National Education Goals panel are winning team members achieved per- quite different: "I don't think we fect scores, and they were all public Fallen Saint should have different levels of stan- school students. AM writing with reference to your dards for different children in Ameri- The biggest contribution Catholic I article in the April issue, "Kudos for ca." He advocated a "national stan- schools could make would be to keep Catholic Schools." You noted the dard," as well as an "international the problems they create and stop tragedy of a popular teacher and his standard." The Department of Educa- dumping them on the public schools.