School Board Can't Muzzle Critics

By Staff - August 24, 2005 - World Net Daily

A federal judge in New Jersey yesterday ordered a local school board to stop restricting speech it deemed "personally directed" from members of the community at public meetings ...

This is typical of the attitude of many school boards across the United States today. They have become so used to the concept of tenure, essentially the concept that school personnel are exempt from criticism, that the boards also believe they are exempt from the normal rules of our society.

There are many problems with our schools that cannot be laid at the feet of school boards. Rampant out of control discipline problems are the result of courts stripping teachers of the right to exert discipline in the classroom. This problem we will have to deal with by changing our courts (and we must).

But there are a great number of problems that are the direct result of school boards taking the side of teacher's unions and the education establishment against the rights of parents and students. This must end.

There is also the critical problem with school funding being a complicated sytem designed to obscure how money is spent. We must get a system that ties education spending to the student. This will fix the problem and prevent the constant complaint that "we don't have enough money" at the same time we are spending twice what it should cost for a quality education.

If you would like to get involved with this effort, please contact Lindalyn Kakadelis at the North Carolina Education Alliance.