http://blog.evesun.com/2010/07/22/151/
151
Stagnaro, Melissa [MC1997]
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Some days it feels hard to believe I’ve been at this desk typing away for two years. On others, the number the calendar provides feels like a far too conservative estimate. It feels like decades, for example, if I’m recovering from a string of school board meetings.
School board meetings. *Groan.*
Attending these meetings is something of a necessary evil for me. I have no idea how many I’ve gone to in the last 24 months, although I feel safe to say it is more than any human should have to endure in a lifetime – unless they are elected to do so, of course. But important stories come out of them, so I have to be there in order to do my job to the best of my ability.
If my job was a spaghetti western a la Clint Eastwood, school board meetings would be the Bad AND the Ugly. But luckily there is the Good to balance it out.
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Reporting the school board meetings may be the most essential form of writing that you do.
These people are supposedly educating other people’s children. You have to distill the facts so those other people, the taxpayers, and the voters (which may be three separate and distinct populations of people) understand who to hold accountable for the results.
(Personally, I’ll try to convince you of the absolute EVIL of Gooferment education. The purpose of the current Gooferment education system, modeled after the Prussian system in the late 1800s, is to create: cannon fodder from the Army, willing workers for the factory, and dumb voters capable of being led by the elite. It’s racist, sexist, immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. Why do people turn over their children, their legacy, to be brainwashed? And, why do taxpayers pay for it since they don’t pay to feed, clothe, house, or even have these children? Finally, why do voters allow the Gooferment to dumb down and propagandize future voters while creating the evil Teacher’s Union to further distort the politics?)
So, you have an important role in exposing schools boards for what they are. Even if you don’t believe my rant, just reporting on it — fairly, honestly, and completely — will show you and your readers the truth about this “giant mistake”.
It may be the MOST important thing you report on.
“If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.” — Walter Williams
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” — Mohandas Gandhi
“I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the school institution “schools” very well, though it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling ever to be the same thing.” – John Taylor Gatto
Please go to those school board meetings with a vision of you freeing future generations from prison. That’s where we have consigned them to.
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