Hey Gorga:
I did not initially respond to your post because the tribe had spoken, and it was time to move on. Today’s Buffalo News reports gives me reason to. Your posting Democrat and Republican Party Facebook comments on the election outcome held no importance to me. The focus for me was about the presence of obscene reading materials in our school libraries and whether they were appropriate. The district and/or winning candidates never denied their presence or questioned they’re appropriateness.
The Buffalo News reports today that elections showed that voters don’t want politics in the classroom. I totally agree with that and have been posting as much. The Lancaster Democratic Party Committee made it much more than obscene materials: This school board victory by Mike Sage, Glenn Jackson, and Tim Talbot is a win for all students. It is a victory for transgender students. It is a victory for science. It is a victory for teachers and librarians. It is a victory for diversity, equity, and inclusion. It is a victory for accepting and loving all students as if they were our own children, because they are our own children.
The Democratic Party endorsed (which in my mind is illegal and/or unethical) and championed Sage’s, Jackson’s, and Talbot’s as if they were the advocates of diversity, equity, and inclusion – unlike Sproull and the Romigs. The latter were mischaracterized and marginalized.
The News also reports that the NYSTU president declares that ‘politics has no place in education’, but finds it is acceptable for candidates to accept Teacher Union endorsements. Disagree; those endorsements are froth with quid pro quo concerns when union contract negotiations take place.
Still unanswered: How much money is in the fund balance and why more was not used to lower the tax levy.