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To be honest, I haven't been keeping up with what's going on within the Birmingham Public School system, I do know the mainstream media covers the school board like white on rice, and, they are not taking their foot out of the behinds of the school board, or the superintendent.
This is the kind of education reporting I wish we had in Huntsville, instead of the lap dog ( yes I said it) education reporting we have. If it weren't for unpaid blogger Geek Palaver I never would have known there was a call for the superintendent to resign, and the citizens comments deck was stacked against the citizens.
If I relied on reporting from mainstream media as my sole source of information I would believe "the superintendent and board are bringing the schools back to the status they enjoyed as the best in the state."
Compare and contrast coverage of the Birmingham City School Board of Education with the Huntsville City School Board of Education
No problems here.
Everything is just lovely.
Pay your taxes and go back to sleep.
We have everything under control.
Yeah right.
Thomas Jefferson said democracy demands and educated and informed electorate.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 89)
". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right." (as cited in Padover, 1939, p. 88)
The above quotes were the cornerstones of Jefferson's interest in education and the franchise. He placed education as the foundation of democracy and a prerequisite to vote.
I report. You decide.
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