Here in VA, Glen Trump-kin is running ads saying that parents should be able to tell schools what to teach, and getting positive reactions to that drivel. Amazing how many folks are ready to jettison the fact based education system. It makes me very sad.
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excerpt: “As the Superintendent [of the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake], I express my sincere apology regarding the online article and news story. During the conversations with teachers, comments made were in no way to convey the Holocaust was anything less than a terrible event in history,” a statement on the school district’s Twitter account reads.
Good. Now fire Peddy so others really get the message.
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support for public education has always been thin and flimsy—parents have had to be bought off and distracted by “local school boards” that simulate private clubs they can pretend to run
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I mean, I appreciate this apology, but in truth this is a logical conclusion of what that stupid new law requires. It’s the legislature that should be apologizing.
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I actually checked to see if that was something they came up with before! Wouldn’t be surprised, but no.
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