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Kilroy wuz Here; Kilroy needs to stay Here

If you haven't visited Kilroy recently, you better hustle up and read today's edition, which is headed by "Kilroy is calling it quits".

John Allison has taken enough abuse for caring about the state of public education, and seeing no support on the horizon (while being often villified by the parents of the children he is trying to help), has decided to walk away.

First off, let me say this: He's more than earned that right. If John has become so embittered by the current situation that he never surfaces in politics or education again, we are all still in his debt.

Sometimes it just hurts too bad to keep going.

So I won't try to talk John out of his decision, as much as we need all the Good Guys from all sides as we can get. I will hope that instead of wiping the dust off his feet, he'll take a much-needed hiatus and come back into the public policy realm when the scar tissue gets a little thicker.

In the meantime: Kilroy needs to stay here. If you believe in what John was doing, step up to the damn plate and become a Kilroy (or a Kil-rette). The reason that "Kilroy" became the graffiti of choice in the World War II is that Kilroy was everywhere. Kilroy couldn't be killed or silenced because Kilroy was potentially EVERYONE.

There is only one way to make a failure out of John Allison's career attempting to improve government and public education in Delaware better: to let it end with him.

Delaware Libertarian is not focused on Red Clay, but it will remain focused on the political-insider-driven Vision 2015; on issues of funding public education; and on issues about public education at the State level, and in John's honor these issues will appear as Kilroy columns.

But you need to get involved, too. Whether it's Red Clay, Christina, DSU, or Orlando George's blatant attempt to write DelTech into the tax code, public education is Delaware's largest state expense, and it touches everybody. Not only do we get the government we deserve, we get the education that we fear when we don't take up the mantle.

Damn it, damn it, damn it: don't dishonor John's character and accomplishments by letting his crusade die....

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