As we watch the Miami-Dade School Board make fools of all of us with some of the outrageous shenanigans that are going on there, this might be a good time to call attention to a little noticed disconnect between the needs of our children and the apparent actions or lack of action by some school board members.
I see certain conservative school board members much more interested in appeasing some of their party members in Tallahassee than looking for the funding that would help our children.
On issue after issue regarding funding and taxation, school board members have refused to take positions that would put them at odds with some of the most right wing members of the House and Senate rather than fight for money for our kids.
Thank goodness we just saw Amendments 5,7, and 9 taken off of the November ballot by the Florida Supreme Court. These proposed Constitutional Amendments would have permitted public education dollars to go to religious schools and in addition, eliminated the school funding part of property taxes with a one year hold harmless and after that--- best wishes!
Our sister county, Broward took a position against these attempts to harm our schools. Not so our Miami-Dade school board, which seems to be less passionately concerned about a huge loss of funding for our kids than staying in the good graces of the Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, David Rivera cabal. I believe that these men basically have an agenda that involves starving public education (which many of their allies refer to as “state schools” -- they do not call them public schools) and moving this state and country toward privatizing public education.
Remember, you are not paranoid, if they are really out to get you.
4 comments:
mom4edu -- you are very smart to watch the way they use language to push their agenda: i.e. STATE schools...what exactly do you think this term means to them? And who are you hearing using this term.
If you are in Tally, you will often here that term on the floor of the House or the Senate. It is used by the far right. They say they believe in public education, but it is all about private enterprise getting hold of that bigt pot of state money.
You're right on target mom4edu! Ana Rivas-Logan may be the unofficial leader of the pack. One only needs to look at campaign reporting to see the ties to Rivera and the Republican Party.
The school board is tainted, the state government is tainted. And who suffers: The children.
They do not care about the kids. They only care about how to get charter schools money so that public schools will become once again: Segregated.
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