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To: Snowshoe who wrote (202526)	4/14/2007 5:31:03 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Some villages are "wet", with high rates of alcoholism, family dysfunction, fetal alcohol syndrome, and suicide. In some the kids are into "huffing", i.e. inhaling solvents such as gasoline and paint thinner. Furthermore, many of these villages are suffering severely from skyrocketing fuel prices, loss of state benefits, and rapidly eroding coastlines. Like us Irish, Russians, and a lot of other Northerners, Indians have a genetic disfunction with alcohol. I don't know if we handled the Alaskan tribes the same way we did the mainland ones, but keeping them penned up on reservations instead mainstreaming them was a big mistake.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (202526)	4/14/2007 2:20:14 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793801

Put "NCLB impacts on Alaska" into a search engine...I just did and came up with 114,000 articles about it....the first 20 or 30 should give you some of your local area concerns... Also, when I read what you wrote: Some of our rural villages are real basket cases, and you can't fix the school without fixing the village. Some villages are "wet", with high rates of alcoholism, family dysfunction, fetal alcohol syndrome, and suicide. In some the kids are into "huffing", i.e. inhaling solvents such as gasoline and paint thinner. Furthermore, many of these villages are suffering severely from skyrocketing fuel prices, loss of state benefits, and rapidly eroding coastlines I thought of the problems on a MASSIVE scale that GWB has faced and is facing, both in this country and in the Middle East....Somewhat puts it into perspective!

To: Snowshoe who wrote (202526)	4/14/2007 5:04:05 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Wife was secretary to the dorm counselor at Nome Beltz regional high school in the early '70's. The idea was to bring kids from the bush and educate them, part of the "Great Society" nonsense. Those natives who reached maturity prior to the do-gooders were generally self-sufficient and happy. Introduction of the welfare state wrought absolute havoc. In our few years there we probably got to know 150 or so. As I recall, there were eight attempted suicides from that group.