Monday, June 14, 2004
ON WITH THE SHOW...
Well, liberals are wiping their brows after the week of festivities honoring Ronald Reagan. A sigh of relief for them, really...so we can get back to the issues of the day. Any reminder of the passion and respect that people had for Reagan and his ideals was tough for them to see.
I've really had it up to here with the disinformation media...and the seeming ease in which liberals and education establishment-types are allowed to get away with what they do. I'm talking about the sheer chutzpa it takes to criticize school choice efforts with a "lack of accountability" angle. Public school advocates are somehow allowed to get away with it in spite of what we know (at least locally) how badly they do with their own accountability.
1. The local school board recently announced they were 61-million dollars short in their building and maintenance fund.
2. A school principal was re-assigned after he was found to be giving students who didn't earn them, diplomas.
3. A charter school principal isn't commenting after the discovery of missing funds that were provided for students she never had.
I suspect these stories aren't too out of the norm in other areas of the country.
Rest assured, when the next plan to implement some common sense choice options in our schools comes...the opponents (usually the same people in charge of the above) will lay claim to the "lack of accountability" argument and oppose any effort to allow parents to tranfer their children to a private school...and they'll be serious about it too. I find it sickening.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. We are currently being treated to a well-deserved look back at the Brown vs Board of Education decision 50-years ago. Students of color won the right to remove the chains outside schools that were supposedly off-limits to them. Now, they find the same chains...only, they're on the inside of the doors and they refuse to let them out.
Well, liberals are wiping their brows after the week of festivities honoring Ronald Reagan. A sigh of relief for them, really...so we can get back to the issues of the day. Any reminder of the passion and respect that people had for Reagan and his ideals was tough for them to see.
I've really had it up to here with the disinformation media...and the seeming ease in which liberals and education establishment-types are allowed to get away with what they do. I'm talking about the sheer chutzpa it takes to criticize school choice efforts with a "lack of accountability" angle. Public school advocates are somehow allowed to get away with it in spite of what we know (at least locally) how badly they do with their own accountability.
1. The local school board recently announced they were 61-million dollars short in their building and maintenance fund.
2. A school principal was re-assigned after he was found to be giving students who didn't earn them, diplomas.
3. A charter school principal isn't commenting after the discovery of missing funds that were provided for students she never had.
I suspect these stories aren't too out of the norm in other areas of the country.
Rest assured, when the next plan to implement some common sense choice options in our schools comes...the opponents (usually the same people in charge of the above) will lay claim to the "lack of accountability" argument and oppose any effort to allow parents to tranfer their children to a private school...and they'll be serious about it too. I find it sickening.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. We are currently being treated to a well-deserved look back at the Brown vs Board of Education decision 50-years ago. Students of color won the right to remove the chains outside schools that were supposedly off-limits to them. Now, they find the same chains...only, they're on the inside of the doors and they refuse to let them out.
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