Elected School Board Fires Superintendent for Failure to Follow Board Policy

[Seymour Flops]

Hate to see anybody lose their job. But as an educator I also hate to that some of my fellow educators see themselves as above the law or above the elected officials elected to supervise them. Which books to allow and which books to not allow in schools is a highly political question and must be solved politically.

We should be very grateful that in our political system it is a democratic process, and not one person claiming Superior knowledge over all voters and taxpayers or some higher mission that allows them to be a law unto themselves.

 

[Dekster]

..... Which books to allow and which books to not allow in schools is a highly political question and must be solved politically.....

Not really except to the extent that you want to make it a political decision. Largely schools have always relied upon librarians who worked with instructors to decide which books they should carry based on what was being taught plus books they thought would be of general interest or use in research papers, book reports and the like.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Hate to see anybody lose their job. But as an educator I also hate to that some of my fellow educators see themselves as above the law or above the elected officials elected to supervise them. Which books to allow and which books to not allow in schools is a highly political question and must be solved politically.

We should be very grateful that in our political system it is a democratic process, and not one person claiming Superior knowledge over all voters and taxpayers or some higher mission that allows them to be a law unto themselves.

Ha, the political process is hardly "democratic". Yes, people get a vote.. they also get a vote in Hong Kong... doesn't make it democratic when you can only choose between two deranged political parties.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Not really except to the extent that you want to make it a political decision. Largely schools have always relied upon librarians who worked with instructors to decide which books they should carry based on what was being taught plus books they thought would be of general interest or use in research papers, book reports and the like.

Yes, and that worked for decade after decade with little problem.

Librarians had no agenda to push, and would have been as appalled as any parent at the content of books like "Gender Queer" and "Lawn Boy." The only way something like that would have gotten on the shelf, would have been pure laziness on the part of an indivdidual librarian. But those two books still would not have gotten past an unwatchful librarian, because the vendors who supply books would have never sent such books to schools in the first place.

When librarians decided to make decisions driven by the far left lGBT-Q agenda, they knew that many parents would disagree, and their plan was to sniff that they have advanced degrees in library science, and wonder aloud why some mechanic, or accountant, or receptionist parent would question them. School boards that bought into the parents as enemies approach sometimes learned the hard way that they were poking the wrong bears.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Ha, the political process is hardly "democratic". Yes, people get a vote.. they also get a vote in Hong Kong... doesn't make it democratic when you can only choose between two deranged political parties.

Sure, sure. Totally agree on national and state issues.

But at the local level of school boards, there is still some authentic democracy. No doubt the Twoparties will be taking more interest now that parents are domestic terrorists, and that democracy may end.