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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby wabbit » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:27 pm

trumpster wrote:The word going around is that the school board hired a little dictator to run the school district. He's known as Dr. Airhead and a variety of other less flattering names. (I think his actual name begins with an A and so Airhead works and based on his lack of ability to explain even the simplest concepts, Airhead seems fully appropriate.)

The key here is that in order to EXPLAIN even the simplest concept, one must have the mental capacity to UNDERSTAND even the simplest concept!
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby hand » Fri Jul 16, 2021 6:21 am

wabbit: True! So True!!!
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby wildbill » Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:01 am

wabbit wrote:
trumpster wrote:The word going around is that the school board hired a little dictator to run the school district. He's known as Dr. Airhead and a variety of other less flattering names. (I think his actual name begins with an A and so Airhead works and based on his lack of ability to explain even the simplest concepts, Airhead seems fully appropriate.)

The key here is that in order to EXPLAIN even the simplest concept, one must have the mental capacity to UNDERSTAND even the simplest concept!
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There have been so many complaints about this person. I have not heard anything positive about this guy whatsoever. How did such an incompetent fool get hired in the first place?
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby shadylady » Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:23 am

wildbill: In the thread about wokeness in education someone posted a bunch of nicknames for the guy and as I recall they were Dr. Airhead, El Chimpo, Jarhead, and Mumbles The Clown. I think the El Chimpo one is a little bit racist, but it is funny and not really all that racist since one of my friends of Hispanic descent got a good laugh out of it.
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby panamint_patty » Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:03 am

ShadyLady posted this elsewhere, but it fits here too. So many people CLAIM that they want good teachers in the classroom, but then turn around and punish any teacher who is anything more than ordinary. It's like they want robotic adherence to an out-dated stereotype.
shadylady wrote:Stand and Deliver (1988) - The Gigolo Problem Scene
Of course, any teacher who actually talked like this in the classroom would receive numerous parent complaints and would ultimately be fired. The movie may have been unrealistic in many ways, but what I'm getting at here is that people say they want creativity and innovation in the classroom, but the minute a teacher deviates from the narrow-minded and ordinary, that teacher is mercilessly criticized.

The movie "Stand and Deliver" was not exactly realistic or accurate, but there are lessons to be learned.
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby wildrose » Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:06 am

Mom Reads Sexually Explicit School Library Book to Board
This is more about a crazy lady at a school board meeting than about crazy school board members, but I'll post here although it could have gone into the SEXXX ED thread. The problem here is that this crazy lady is upset about what psychologists see as common and normal behavior. The author of the book simply included an account of an interaction which is part of the normal childhood development of many people. Percentages are hard to estimate, but probably somewhere between ten and sixty percent of males have a homosexual experience during their early years. It's not pornographic. It's not something that only pedophiles would include in a book. It's just part of the human experience and being shocked by something as mundane as such passages in a book is the real problem here, not the passages included in the book!
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby wildrose » Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:12 am

Mom Reads Sexually Explicit Kids Book—School Board Cuts Her Mic Before She Can Fully Expose Them
Literature is supposed to be a reflection of the human experience and that means the human experience of all humans, not just a few priggish prudes. The egocentricity of this woman is appalling. Was the book age appropriate? For some kids yes and some kids no, but why should the kids who would benefit from such a book not have access to it just because some self-righteous airhead doesn't like it?
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby twister » Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:42 am

Judy Blume on Dealing with Book Censorship and Overly Sensitive Parents
I attended Trona Elementary and THS and I read Judy Blume books on both campuses. The library had almost all her books including "Forever"! Go to this link to see a few of the topics she deals with in her books:
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby shadylady » Wed Sep 29, 2021 6:27 am

EXCERPTS FROM THE MAY 2021 School Board Meeting Thread:
wildrose wrote:1) DELETED AGENDA ITEMS: Nine agenda items were deleted. They all had to do with coaching positions. Usually this indicates that there were one or two coaches being recommended that the board objects to, but to hide the identity of the unwanted coach(es) they just table all similar items.

That's wildrose reporting on what actually transpired at the board meeting and then twister makes this observation:
twister wrote:I'd be willing to bet that everyone's favorite board member's daughter made up some crap about one of the candidates for a coaching position and this false accusation is what is holding things up. I don't know how many times someone can cry wolf and still be taken seriously, but we're headed into world record territory on this one!
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As many people have stated in various threads, the daughter of this particular board member has made a number of false accusations against staff members at the school. She seems to be a compulsive liar or have some other psychological issue if rumors regarding these events are true.
tronagirl wrote:And this is why it's important that dysfunctional morons not serve on the school board. People with messed up families are not likely to do anything positive for the school.
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THE MORAL OF THIS STORY: People who can't manage their own affairs should not have a say in managing the affairs of others.
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Re: Crazy School Board Members

Postby tronagirl » Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:51 am

shadylady wrote:THE MORAL OF THIS STORY: People who can't manage their own affairs should not have a say in managing the affairs of others.

AMEN! :thumb:
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