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Letter: Here’s how to fix school and the Iowa State Fair
Op-Ed · February 19, 2015
To better break the school year between its two semesters, how about the Governor-For-Life-That-Likes-To-Tell-Folks-What-They-Must-Do (GFLTLTTFWTMD) either tells Our State Fair to start and end earlier or he moves Christmas well into the following year.
The latter should please business more because sacred Black Friday certainly cannot be moved and a later Xma$ would mean more shopping days and dollars spent over the extended period between the two.
Also, this would crowd down Lenten fasting and abstinence in preparation for Easter and thus fewer days of people avoiding buying and eating pork and beef.
In addition, the GFLTLTTFWTMD could also order that all of Iowa’s high school graduation ceremonies would be held off until they were jointly celebrated in conjunction with Our State Fair.
Not only would this boost fair attendance, but a newly instituted increase in gas tax would put additional money into the pockets of the road construction industry that would be rung up at the pump by all of the families and friends driving to the state friar graduation — and just think what it could do for cotton-candy sales were it to be produced and sold in varying school colors.
Sam Osborne, West Branch
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