Post in A "Dark View" of the $60M School Referendum Proposal

May 16 23:17 UTC

In the end, it still comes down to the same thing: There is not the political
will to educate poor children. Michael Atherton says there are structures that
are effective, he's more likely than most to have delved into that, so I'll
accept it as demonstrable.

Name me one school board member or wannabe who knows a reasonable number of
those structures and can evaluate them, get the backing to institute them
>>over the objections of management, teachers, and think tanks?<<

Name me a current or recent school board who were willing to pull together,
evaluate the material, choose structures, and institute them?

What I do know is that too many of the kids around my neck of the woods are not
prepared for school nor are the schools prepared to educate them, because they
come home from school year after year and demonstrate that school is not making
a positive impression on them. Many of them also demonstrate that parenting of
a rather coarse nature is being practiced on them. It's maybe the saddest thing
I see day in and day out.

Nevertheless, it's a gorgeous day. The crabapples are in bloom, Barb cajoled,
threatened, yelled, and assisted her boy to graduation with honors. There is no
reason why a great many more kids out of the class of '08 cannot be in a
similar position today.