(Hour 1a, Hour 2a) Rich was not in a good mood this morning. The decision of the School Board Committee and Chairman Erika Connors to not allow (… read more…) public comments at last night’s School Board meeting really had him scratching his head. Why shut out the public? Why the process changes to affect ALL committees? Is the Manchester School District attempting to “backdoor” Common Core? In Hour 2a, Rich shares minutes found by Patrice from Manchester on the School District’s own website that reveal some interesting information. Tune in for the details!
And read more in the On Air News Read.
(Hour 1a) 01-29-2014 Hour 1a
(Hour 2a) 01-29-2014 Hour 2a
Public eduction is one of the core services of the community and — particularly in New England, where the public school (and I mean PUBLIC, not PRIVATE like in the England that the first New Englanders of a European persuasion emigrated from) was established as a keystone of society as those Congregationalists (sounds better than Puritan, eh?) believed that universal education for males was fundamental to their religion. You had to read and reason to understand the Bible and be in touch with Jehovah; to be a human being; to be a citizen. To shut the public out of the process of public education is unconscionable. (Incidentally, I’m descended from those very same
Puritans who established public education in the American colonies and a product of Queen City schools. Maybe I will go to the next meeting to give them a history lesson.)