Dr. Bonner & the Banana Splitz

The School Committee is a group I don't understand. I'm not sure what we need them for exactly. But whenever Dr. Bonner tries to do something they use the local paper to discredit her and to show themselves to be a bunch of attention grabbing babies. Last time it was Swine Flu, this time it's school transfers.

Over the years if people have wanted to transfer there kids from one school to one in another district I think they pretty much got their wish. As neighborhoods have taken on certain characteristics, certain schools have become desirable than others. Makes sense. So parents want their kids to go to the better schools. And therefore they ask for transfers. But they shouldn't get them for that reason. They should get them for valid reasons. Especially since there is a new superintendent who intends to fix any problems in any of the schools. In order to do this she wants to make sure class size doesn't get out of hand anywhere. Well, if kids get transferred as much as their parents wish you can see how classes in the "good" schools would get overcrowded. In order to avoid this problem she asked all the parents/kids to reapply who had been transferred in the past to make sure they had good reason.

Here's where it all goes to hell. She granted most of the transfers, but not all of them. So those parents called School Committee members with their complaints. And again the school committee members couldn't deal with angry parents and that she didn't check with them first. So this time, when they threw their shitfit, she threw one back and approved all of them outright so that the school committee could be responsible when the parents started complaining in September about overcrowded classrooms. I thought it was a master stroke. They don't want to let her do her job. They want to make all her decisions for her, so she gave them their wish.

So there was a school committee meeting the other day. They usually have their executive meeting at the end. But this time they put it up front to try to get rid of the public. They figured if they made people sit there and wait for them while they went into another room, they'd get impatient and leave. Well an hour and 45 minutes later, no one had left. They really have a lot of nerve. Someone is trying to be a master manipulator and he sucks at it. I would suggest he study Ben Linus from LOST. Because he really doesn't get people or how much he can't passive-aggressively push them around.

So what happened? To tell you the truth I'm not really that sure. I think they've still all been transferred. The Principal from the most popular school looked like she was going to make a break for it or fake her death or something, because on top of the increase class size, she lost her teacher's aid to budget cuts. Those kindergartners are probably going to go Lord of the Flies on her.

My answer is the same. Get rid of the illegals. They'll take their 'merican kids with them. That's what's an unnecessary drain on resources and is bulking up the class sizes. So very simple.