I’ve been quiet for a while waiting to see when Artvoice is going to get back on the ball with regard to this mess we call a public school system and a school board.

I was becoming somewhat hopeful during the spring that we might just have had a responsible member of the local media (Artvoice) beginning to dig into some of the dysfunction within this school system.

I’m beginning to loose hope!

Not a word from Artvoice in quite a while!

It’s been so amusing to watch JAWS over the past few days talking about the Smartboards which have been installed in a small majority of the classrooms.

Then I had to laugh yesterday when he was talking about the boys in the district coming to school better dressed. Has anyone informed him that principals have been struggling with this for years. Especially since the principals can’t keep up with the gang related colors which children wear.

Any principal will tell you that, yes, the boys need to come to school better dressed. Yet, after telling young men to pull up their pants and tuck in their shirts thousands of times in a day, it is more important to deal with issues of violence during those days, rather then weather their shirts have a collar on them. I believe the mind set is, “You have to pick your battles!”

Get real JAWS!

Sure ideally we would love to see all the young women and men looking presentable, conservative, appropriate! Plus, when your parents, grandparents, and all your role models dress “down” this is what these children know. You are not going to get them to look like a Talbots catalog because it’s just not part of their culture! Like JAWS doesn’t know this.

JAWS needs to get a grip and start dealing with the real problems facing the children of this district. He needs to stop looking for all the outer things to try to make himself look good.!

Yes, we need to have current technology in the classrooms. Did someone, maybe Stephan, forget to let him know about the terrible violence against very young teenagers in the past week? Why not set up some programing, required programming, within the school day which addresses anger management, conflict resolution etc.? Isn’t that more important than a shirt collar?