The power rests with the people. Our tax dollars are…ours.
If you want to make a teacher angry, refer to them as human capital. That sounds proprietary in nature. School systems do not own people. Not students, not parents, not faculty, not anybody. The power of school systems should rest with the people who they serve. Our tax dollars are not their earnings. School systems are there to educate students. They are not there to build secret libraries that have books about alternative lifestyles. In fact, they shouldn’t be promoting a lifestyle at all that involves the bedroom. What they need to be doing is teaching students. They need to teach them at high levels so that they can learn to think, create, grow, build, invent, and to maintain the free, democratic nation that we live in. Quality instructional delivery should be their goal. They have gone off into the weeds on many issues, and the Governor and President-elect want people to be able to opt out, and choose their own educational path.
When school systems fail to promote high academic standards or add to the mission of academic education, people should be allowed to take their tax dollars and leave. If a school board is running counter to vouchers, they are supporting an Obama/Harris/Biden policy – PERIOD. For a variety of reasons, people should be able to choose their schools and their school systems. School systems do not own students.
You need to read what our local leadership said about President Trump’s and Bill Lee’s policies. I am guessing many of you in Kingsport voted for both of them based on their platforms. We have Republicans in NE TN who are running directly against Republican policy. You should know that.
This is duplicitous in nature, and honestly, it just burns my biscuits.
I know some of you on my Facebook page are personal friends with Governor Bill Lee. Maybe he needs to read this.
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