Here’s a thing. When the Bush administration starves our school districts of cash and then makes them waste what they do have on NCLB, wingnuts are empowered to destroy school systems that don’t have the funds to fight back. “Lawsuit” is a very scary word when there’s no money in the till.
I was thinking about the art teacher in Texas. The news report say she was fired based on one parent complaining. One. After multiple approvals and winning awards and blah blah. One. Which reads to me like fear of lawsuit, and that implies things about the pressures that the school district is under and how much money it has to fight if it chose to fight.
A big chunk of the wingnut agenda has been to take over the schools. Weaken the schools by starving them of money, and they’re easier to take over. Maybe it’s just that simple.
(No cross-post left behind.)
Total b.s. They want to fire someone? Fire the principal who approved the tour. Oh wait, that would negate the setup. Flimsy friggin’ excuse for firing someone. Wanna bet there’s another reason behind this?
Damn. Wish I knew that I could get a teacher fired if my parents complained. I thought it was more complicated than that. Now it’s been way too many years for revenge on that middle school teacher to mean anything at all.
I sigh. Lost opportunities…
I do think you’re mostly on the nose, though.
Wow, I never even considered the possibility of using it for revenge. The mind boggles.
For the record, my son had one teacher who gave him a hard time for no reason, didn’t “get” him, and accused him of dawdling when he was being obsessively careful (this is a kid with OCD who was in a special ed school, so the teacher should have known better). I complained many times. No firing. Maybe nudity is required for it to work.