Stinky The Clown
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:26 PM
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If you're pissed off *and* politically active, work against the local assholes on your school board |
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They're allowing right wing POLITICS to affect their decisions. They're either cowards or complicit. Neither one is good. And therein lies, perhaps, the making of a nascent campaign to unseat them next go-round.
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Rosa Luxemburg
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:29 PM
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1. The school board here were appointed by the repub governor |
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hence I'm showing it live!
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Tangerine LaBamba
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:33 PM
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2. Did you see what happened in Montana? |
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A bunch of Republicans quit the Republican Party, stating that it had been taken over by "phony Republicans." I suspect that kind of infiltration is taking place all over the United States these days. In case you didn't see this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6484533
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Stinky The Clown
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:39 PM
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:54 PM
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7. That's a great story, Tange, |
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Edited on Mon Sep-07-09 11:54 PM by elleng
one I hoped would get more play. Ike did warn against similar infiltration, years ago, and I wish we and others would make something of this stuff. (As in, prevent dems etc from dumping on e/o as reps want, and encourage more noise about such events as Montana.)
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:37 PM
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But most school boards are filled by people who ran because no one else wanted to. It's a thankless job. But we certainly could use more progressives.
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Stinky The Clown
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:42 PM
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5. Actually, local school boards were (are?) targets for the kristofascist storm troopers |
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Their churches and rat fuckers like Ralph Reed pushed this a while back. Maybe still are (unless Reed is still too busy screwing native people.
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Mon Sep-07-09 11:48 PM
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6. Most terms are 4 years. |
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They come and go in waves. In over 20 years, I've seen several generations. Right now our board is decent, if not terribly brave.
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Tue Sep-08-09 12:03 AM
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8. The local school boards are how ideologues and wannabe social engineers inflect our schools. |
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Flame me, but IMO that would be an argument for a more centralized and technocratic control of the school system.
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