Steve Poynter's Blog (1)

In May of this year a group of our middle school students and teachers were fortunate enough to be able to hear a speech by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.  Shortly after the visit, a letter to the editor appeared in the local paper. In a nutshell, the author didn't appreciate the use of taxpayer money for such a trip since; as he put it, "there are Christian leaders that have larger followers than the Buddhist, yet I doubt that our school would…