[Local-Maine-Schools] "...allow state officials to concentrate onthe classrooms ...with available resources"

[Paul Murphy]

"Let's stand up for the kids..." It should read, "Let's stomp all over the
kids..."Let's stomp on the children..." One of the woeful things about this
farce of a process is that there has been precious little attention given to
the quality of education by consolidation proponents. Remember the original
proposal was to increase class sizes and the one piece that might have had a
positive impact in the classroom was soon stripped out.

And ethically speaking, shouldn't Mr Carignan identify himself as a hired
gun, rather than a private citizen when he writes a letter to the editor
about a matter he's getting paid to advocate for.?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Hubbell" <sparkflashgap at gmail.com>
To: "Local Maine Schools List" <local-maine-schools at lists.svaha.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 6:40 AM
Subject: [Local-Maine-Schools] "...allow state officials to concentrate
onthe classrooms ...with available resources"


> Here's something that gets rhetorically more revealing the closer you read
it:
>
> >We need to move forward with a required reorganization, and we should
> >stick to the 2,500-pupil target. That will guarantee the necessary
> >savings and allow state officials to concentrate on the classrooms
> >across the state with available resources.
>
> >Let's stand up for the children this time and not bow to the special
> >interests that want to retain positions and authority. This is about
> >kid power for the future, not adult power for the >present.
>
> --James Carignan, Harpswell
>
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/215058-3/LetterstotheEditor/Stand_up_for_the_children/
>
> Apparently Carignan (who chairs the State Board of Education) and the
> Governor scrambled their eggs together on Saturday morning because in
> his Saturday morning radio address, the Governor warned that "special
> interests who are determined to maintain the status quo and block the
> path forward are feverishly working the halls of the State House."
>
> --[Governor asks citizen support as final push begins]
>
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/06/02/governor_asks_citizen_support_as_final_push_begins/
>
> Would that it were so.  These two need to be reminded that there is
> nothing more special about the interests of an elected school board
> than those of a state-appointed official or that of the Governor
> himself.
>
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