This Wednesday is the second task force meeting resulting out of the legislation of State Bill 767. The bill I and many others were fighting this last spring and summer.
The first meeting was impressive and I have been amiss to not give you an update. Wednesday's meeting has all of our attention. A big wig from the National Education Association is going to speak. The more rose colored glass bespectacled folks in our group thinks he'll have good things to say. Please forgive me if I show my cards here.....he won't. He'll be trained, primed and coached in what to say from the local version of the NEA, our own Oregon Education Association. The organization that showed their true scandalous colors in this legislative session.
I can't make it, but coming up soon I'll post where you can link to listen to it live if you desire.
But in celebration of this great event, I want to invite you to click on the very reason why my children haven't stepped foot in a local public school in our area. I don't want to detract from the learning that takes place in this school, the huge efforts done by underpaid teachers in their 30-40 student classrooms, or the efforts by those who really do care. They go unnoticed a lot. I don't blame them at all. I blame the entire system that has been block by block, contract by contract, built by the OEA. The school system in our state is broken, and the OEA is a big part of that.
Click here. This is the local high school our kids are slated to go to but won't unless they are lowering me into the ground. This school is also a "red listed" high school, meaning it does not meet government standards for academic minimum requirements. We do have the option of transferring to another school, but trust me. I could find a similar article for those schools from last week. It's just jumping from one crisis school to another.
Funny how this story is only being shown on the local Fox network.
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