Words have meanings
and I think the latest from Gary Chartrand are quite telling. If you don’t
remember Chartrand is a grocer who parlayed his campaign donations to a spot on
the state board of education.
From the Tampa Times,
when talking about a possible misstep from education commissioner Pam Step:
"I've admired her
work ethic and her desire to do right by kids," chairman Gary Chartrand
said.
Still,
he quickly added, "Nobody is perfect."
Chartrand
said he didn't want to get into details. "But there's always room to
improve," he said. "I know you were not satisfied with the glitches
we had in testing."
Oh, he knows YOU were not satisfied by the glitches
we had. I personally am not satisfied with the word glitch because the state
roll out was a disaster.
Why did he say, you, instead of we? Probably because
he doesn’t really care what happens to public school kids, in fact I bet he
thinks families that send their kids to public schools are morons and beneath contempt
for doing so. He sent his kids to expensive and exclusive private schools that
were exempt from the tests and he wants to funnel public school kids into
barely regulated private schools that don’t have to take the tests either.
You may not have been satisfied with the roll out
but I bet he loves it because it gives public schools a black eye and will
cause even more kids to leave. He is part of a regime that created a disaster
and now seeks to benefit off of it.
The question now is will YOU let him?
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