Time To Deconsolidate Schools
Dear Editor,
It is time for our schools to be deconsolidated. That is, a return to High Point City Schools, Greensboro City Schools and Guilford County Schools. Too few people hold power over too many citizens.
The bus routes have to start too early and run too late. The areas outside of Greensboro City limits are poorly represented. Even County Commissioner Skip Alston wants the City of Greensboro to start contributing to the financial well-being of the schools. If that is necessary, it is time for High Point and Greensboro to create their own districts, pay for their own teachers, buses and infrastructure, to receive their own subsidies from the state and deliver a better education for our students and working conditions for our teachers.
Wilson Chandler
Seat Michael Logan On School Board
Dear Editor,
To the Guilford County school board Democrats:
Don’t you think it’s about time you quit “twisting the law” and started “obeying the law?” Respect the choice of the voters and seat Michael Logan. It’s pretty obvious that since he’s not the puppet you want and you decided to use your own distorted “interpretation” of the law to your favor. I assume you aren’t aware of how unprofessionally you have presented yourselves, or how deceitful you have been to the constituents of Guilford County, as I presume you are all fairly intelligent people.
Besides being saddled with a costly system that is failing our children, we, the taxpayers, are also saddled with a school board that has its own agenda. And that agenda isn’t about teaching our children to read, write, and do math.
The dissenting vote was not ever yours to make – the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth times. Don’t again make our school board a laughingstock by attempting a vote against Michael Logan a sixth time. The choice is clearly not yours to make. It is the choice of the Republican Party.
Michael Logan has been duly elected and he should be duly seated.
Susan Tysinger
You’re right, Susan. The educational standards of this country are pitiful. We consistently rank around 27th in student achievement globally, below many Third World nations.
The self-serving and corrupt government school system needs to be unconditionally abolished and replaced with a freer system that gives parents and children some real choices.
Well said Wilson.
I would like to see a side by side comparison of what it was like BEFORE our Lords & Ladies created the current monstrosity they call an education system.
Unfortunately, going back to an education system that actually worked is next to impossible. Between the apathy of too many parents and the Frankenstein-like government creation we currently have, those that try to home school face so many obstacles. How dare they try to avoid allowing Big Brother to properly indoctrinate those children with ideas like learn to think for yourself and be mostly self sufficient.
How dare you try to keep us from making them willing thralls.
Exactly right, Alan. The best way to escape the open sewer that is the government schools is to educate your children yourself. Or pay for a private school.
One “tell” of closet totalitarians is their belief that children belong to the state, not the parents. That is why home schooling makes them furious.
It’s an interesting item that there’s a distinct majority of democrats on the school board. I often wonder what would happen is the majority were conservatives. My guess is there would be horror and uproar by the grifters who want to retain power, then marches on schools and school board meetings, etc. And let’s not forget they’d use the mantra of “it’s about the children”, when in fact, it’s about politics and control. The NEA is not about education, but is about control of the narratives and plaudits of the few who seek to retain control.