[Aquinasfan]

A great deal of money is spent in California and elsewhere by districts to perpetuate the myth that their schools are somehow “different” from the schools parents are reading about or may have heard about.

Superintendents go to workshops to learn how to deal with parents and the media. "You're the only parent who has complained." "We need to tolerate other people's differences." Ever heard those ones? Evade, obscure... and then silence opponents with Robert's rules of order.

[achilles2000]

It is amazing how many parents have heard those phrases flow seemingly spontaneously from the lips of our highly trained education professionals.

The entire system is iredeemably corrupt and getting worse by the day. (except, of course, the schools of the Freepers who show up to declare theri schools are different because [fill in the blank].)

[wintertime]

Superintendents go to workshops to learn how to deal with parents and the media.
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Achilles, thanks for the ping.

Aquinasfan, if you come across any articles regarding superintendents’ workshops, please ping me. I would find them very interesting.

Also...Principals have used those very phrases on me. “You are the **only** parent who has complained!” ( yeah right!)

Axiom: All Marxists lie.

Corollary: Schools are the Marxists most important weapon against freedom.