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To: BruceDeitrickPrice; sergeantdave
I serve on my local K-12 School Board as an elected official. Even at that level of access, trying to get details about the curriculum and pedagogy being used in our classrooms is like pulling teeth. It takes repeated attempts and requests for reports and information. You receive delays and runarounds and a lot of educratic speak implying you, as an average citizen Board member, are too ill informed to follow what the district's "Harvard Educated Ed School" administrators are implementing "for the children," and why not MYOB. It is a tough job, and you immediately encounter opposition and many enemies.

Fortunately, I enjoy a good fight, dislike unions, and am an educator myself with a Ph.D. in Economics. We are slowly peeling back this onion and starting to see academic improvements, and much less budgetary waste. I encourage everyone to run for local School Board, and help your community to weed out bad teachers and administrators, privatize services where possible, and demand improvements in test scores and performance. It is very time consuming, however, so best done if you are retired or semi-retired and can devote the time necessary. Politically, 75% of local taxes here in NH go to operating the schools -- not the town government. So the schools are where the money's at, it's important to get involved and run for that reason, too. You don't have to be in education to run for School Board. Business people have a stake in educating young people well, and if you are in construction trades or real estate or accounting you'd be an invaluable school board member too since so much of what we do concerns budgeting, facilities improvements, etc.

130 posted on 07/28/2018 11:06:40 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Where are the Obama-Creamer audio tapes, CNN?)
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To: 4Liberty
"Harvard Educated Ed School" administrators

I think I see the problem here and I note where you are located so I better understand the affliction. I will say that I believe you are doing the Lord's work in your elected position. While we are not generally so afflicted out here in the hinterlands and among the deplorables, it's rare that a board or individual member really gets up on their hind legs about how the educrats are flim-flamming the public.

137 posted on 07/29/2018 5:18:21 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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