i grew up in rural ohio. cattle farms (beef), and milkhouses. coal miners and truck drivers. you get the picture.
but, despite all that, my school district was the best in the county, including our foreign language programs and our history/government department. since i left, the science department had also improved, and due to open enrollment, the school is at maximum capacity.
and in desperate need of levies, as are most public schools.
so when my mom sent a whole front page of the newspaper, i was shocked and amazed to find out my teacher, and later friend, now the middle school principal, had been essentially fired. his contract was let expire, even after the recommendation for renewal.
why?
well, if you'd lived in the school district, you'd know, unfortunately, that all things are cyclical with the school board. the woman with the biggest penis in a 100 mile radius rules the roost yet again, with her trusty yokel sidekick, each with less than half a brain.
or maybe, as some other politicians, they're just evil.
when i was in school, they pulled this exact same bullshit with another principal. the town was so outraged, you would've thought these assholes would've been run out of town tarred and feathered. or worse. seriously. have you ever seen a school board meeting in a school gymnasium, with the bleachers packed as if a basketball game is in in progress? full of screaming angry townspeople!
they learned from their mistakes. they now decline to find THAT large of a meeting area.
so, in time, the townspeople moved on, or forgot, or grew too old to care, and the same folks got re-elected to the school board. and now, the same shit has happened again. the only difference is, i'm older now, and i really want to tell these asshats where they can shove their opinions.
when every teacher and every student speaks out in his behalf, when townspeople cry foul, and the superintendent makes the recommendation to renew the guy's contract... and you do the opposite? and you dont actually give reasons for dropping the guy's contract? (rumor is that they were making way for a relative of big-penis-lady to take the position...)
i feel really bad for the soon-to-be-ex-principal. he actually made me care about government, and economics, and got me involved in both Boys' State and the Close Up project in DC. and now he's being totally shat upon.
fuck you, you fucking fuckballs. i hope he becomes superintendent in the next town over, makes more money, turns their school around, and puts yours out of business. or that you choke on it, motherfuckers.
sorry, i lost all composure. but when these yahoos controlled the school board the last time, i cant even list all the bad shit that happened.
there goes next year's emergency levy, too. dumbasses.