Almost 24 Hours Left Before The Public Puts The Public In Public Schools

I would assume both "sides" are getting in high gear. I have been involved with issues with the District before - it always makes for an interesting point when someone asks "who is on the kid's side?".

As always, there are those chomping at the bit because bloggers don't use their name.

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Some may be worried they may commit libel or slander while others may be planning to accuse others of libel or slander:

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Will we see the Delphi Technique in full exposure?:


Using the Delphi Technique to Achieve Consensus -- November 1998 Education Reporter:

Participants are encouraged to put their ideas and disagreements on paper, with the results to be compiled later. Who does the compiling? If you ask participants, you typically hear: "Those running the meeting compiled the results." Oh-h! The next question is: "How do you know that what you wrote on your sheet of paper was incorporated into the final outcome?" The typical answer is: "Well, I've wondered about that, because what I wrote doesn't seem to be reflected. I guess my views were in the minority."

That is the crux of the situation. If 50 people write down their ideas individually, to be compiled later into a final outcome, no one knows what anyone else has written. That the final outcome of such a meeting reflects anyone's input at all is highly questionable, and the same holds true when the facilitator records the group's comments on paper. But participants in these types of meetings usually don't question the process.

Why hold such meetings at all if the outcomes are already established? The answer is because it is imperative for the acceptance of the School-to-Work agenda, or the environmental agenda, or whatever the agenda, that ordinary people assume ownership of the preset outcomes. If people believe an idea is theirs, they'll support it. If they believe an idea is being forced on them, they'll resist.

Will the trust between all parties involved be driven further apart because it is now about principle and protecting one's power instead of collaboration?

Will those who have authority by virtue of their position as a school board employee abuse that authority through arrogance with ignorance?

Will those public patrons abuse their right to be involved with their child's education?

Will anyone take a serious look at what is happening to the culture of HCPS? Will a District person just come right out and say what many of them believe is that what is wrong with public schools is the public?

Will anyone learn from this debacle or will it be business as usual tomorrow? Will the District simply hunker down and weather the storm because these parents and kids will be gone in time?

Will we see honesty and transparency or will we see posturing and evasiveness?




I myself will have cooked a pig in the ground and have some beer on ice.....