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“SB 834 is a devolution of the public school system from the Oklahoma State Board of Education into many individual school systems run by the local school boards.”
Huh??? Doesn’t government closest to the people work best?
Grindstone Journal:
Regressive Republicans can’t get rid of public schools wholesale, of course, but they can chip away at them. Their latest attack on public education is embodied in SB 834. They call it the “School District Empowerment Program.” Doesn’t that sound lovely? Isn’t it ironic that the deadliest poison comes in the most innocuous packaging?
SB 834 is a devolution of the public school system from the Oklahoma State Board of Education into many individual school systems run by the local school boards. That would be alarming enough, if that were all it did. Local school board elections are not as widely publicized as big state and national elections. District residents are often unaware that elections are taking place, and are even more ignorant of the qualifications of the candidates. School boards are vulnerable to capture by extremist groups such as the John Birch Society.
The bill does more than that, though. SB 834 proposes to undermine the whole foundation of the public school system by effectively reverting public schools to charter school status. In one fell swoop, the legislature could undermine all the progress we’ve made in collective bargaining, teacher pay and secular education. Read more…
3 Comments
1. Dave Weston replies at 16th April 2009, 1:55 pm :
I am reminding of the line from Kipling’s If: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools…
Rather than demonize and portray local citizens as unworthy, I would like to see him explain how test scores and ACT scores have benefited from HB 1017 et al.
2. Jim Martin replies at 16th April 2009, 2:10 pm :
Perhaps we could organize American society into communes and then take from each according to their production and then give back to each according to their needs.
OH GOSH…we are already doing that.
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