Thursday, February 18, 2010

Board Must Seek a Referendum By Peter McKeever

From the Herald-Independent:


Not one of you was elected to the school board with the goal of reducing the quality of education the district provides. Not one of you ran for office or took the job you have now to cut classes, cut staff, cut programs. None of you is happy about what you believe you have to do. You are educators, not budget cutters.

As administrators and teachers, you got into this kind of work to educate young people well, not cut budgets, programs, and classes. You know as well as I do that we need more, not less, education. We need better and more innovative education, not worse cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all education. You are not in education to cut it down.
So don’t do it. Stop. Right now. Go in a different direction. You know you cannot do what needs to be done with less.


Mr. McKeever is a former Monona Alderman.

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