Yesterday this article appeared in the Tulsa World:
It features comments from a blog post on the 1889 Institute’s (an Oklahoma Stink Tank) website by Byron Schlomach. I am quite familiar with Mr. Schlomach’s sloppy work about which I’ve written before:
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Not wanting limited thinker Schlomach to spout more drivel unchallenged, I penned this letter to the World’s Editor:
Whether or not closing all state schools for the rest of the school year is good public policy is worthy of thoughtful consideration and debate. However, beware of listening to Byron Schlomach of the 1889 Institute for reliable information to inform that debate. In the run up to the Oklahoma Legislature’s historic vote in 2018 to increase teacher pay, Schlomach argued repeatedly against the increase and supported his arguments by inflating average teacher pay by thousands of dollars and statewide school district expenditures by hundreds of millions. He also demonstrated he does not know the difference between an arithmetic and a geometric progression—understanding critical to estimating the costs of a pandemic. I’ll trust the numbers of “well intentioned health experts” any day over those provided by Schlomach.
Stay safe. I will continue to follow the advice of “well intentioned health experts” and pay little attention to the drivel coming from Stink Tank inhabitants like Schlomach.
A carry out pizza on me for the first to ID the photo location.
U b safe too. And thx for nailing the folks with true fake news! I am in S. Tulsa w my sis. Safe and careful.