Forget cat videos, the internet is flooding with public comment delivered to the local school board. And there’s a theme. The Education Industrial Complex has been naughty, and needs a paddle to the rhetorical fanny with the “Board of Education.”
If you are old enough you know what that is. Back in the day, children were a might bit less entitled and good stretch more well-behaved. “Educators” were permitted a bit more latitude in addressing your behavior if you evolved unnecessarily into a little bastard.
My Gym teacher had a paddle with the words “board of education” engraved in them. I never saw him have to use it, and that was entirely the point.
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These days the elected officials, administrators, and “educators” are the ones who could use a good paddle (for what they are doing to the children) but since that’s more a personal choice among adults that requires consent, we are left with publicly recorded displays such as this.
Taxpayers, residents, parents, expressing their distaste for the path upon which public education has been placed.
In today’s “vignette” we have Simon Campbell, a previous member of the board he is addressed, giving them a good dressing down.
Popcorn in optional but this gentleman knows more about the constitution than the elected members he is addressing, and he’s not letting them get away with not having it recorded for public record.
