DO YOU FEEL THE PAIN?
by SCRGadmin on Oct.22, 2009, under Our School System
Maybe this will help:
The Board has outlined its first five “consequences” if the levy fails:
1. Reduce busing to the state minimum level
2. Reduce the school lunch program in the cafeteria (a federal program)
3. Close one school building
4. Reduce the teacher/student ratio (larger classes)
5. “Pay-to-play” for sports, clubs, etc.
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November 22nd, 2009 on 4:49 pm
The Stow Sentry reports that the SMFSD is standing by its decision not to publish a memorial article & photo of a student who committed suicide earlier this year in the high school’s newspaper (“District tells ACLU it stands by decision,” Nov. 22, 2009).
This entire matter is not one of censorship or the right to free speech.
The student newspaper, the Stohion, is not the private domain of the kiddies who happened to volunteer to participate in its publication. The school newspaper — and everything else in the school district, for that matter — is the property of the citizens of Stow & Munroe Falls. The responsibility for the proper use of said property has been delegated by the community to the school administration, not to the kiddies.
It is open to argument whether it was wise for the school authorities not to permit publishing the memorial article. {I happen to agree with Principle Sue Schur decision not to publish it for the reasons stated in the Stow Sentry article.) What is not in question, however, is the right of the administration to make such a decision.
As for the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) involvement in all this: Realize that there is hardly a more loathsome organization operating in the U.S. today than the ACLU. Only ACORN is on par with the ACLU in its destructiveness of the country.
But what can you expect. The ACLU was founded by the communist and atheist, Roger Baldwin, in 1920. Since then, the ACLU has been a significant force in driving God out of the public square, especially the public schools and turning the U.S, Constitution into something so plastic that liberal judges can read anything they want into it.
As to other things like 1) criminals today having more rights than victims and 2) other morally disgusting trends like the flood of pornography that’s polluting society, look for the hand of the ACLU behind much of it.
I fully support the SMFSD when it disagreed with the ACLU in this matter. The only criticism I have for the school district that it even bothered to respond to the ACLU.
January 21st, 2010 on 3:08 am
The superintendent is receiving a salary for which he must perform specific duties such as leading the district through the process to pass levies or obtain
funds which the district needs? Our previous superintendents did this task adequately without hiring/paying someone else.
It is incomprehensible that anyone at the meeting could believe that food service could be suspended. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about schools would know that the district must function
within federal guidelines for free and reduced lunches. It appears from the article that those in leadership positions did not speak up immediately to inform the board member(s) that suspending food
service could not be one of the “five potential consequences if the November levy fails…” One could infer from the chronology of the article that the belief that food service could be suspended was
sustained long enough to be listed in the “five potential consequences.”
The article said, “No decisions on cuts were made…” and “They agreed not to set deadlines for any of them to take effect.” so maybe
no one should be concerned because, again, the board and district leaders have not put forth definite action.
It is apparent to me that the board has followed the lead of the district administrators to use the approach of making the citizens feel the pinch rather than communicate adequately with the public the steps they must take to keep the district financially sound.