Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Education / Woods School Board May Have Broken Law
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:09 AM
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“This is the kind of skullduggery that’s caused this school system to be pushed down into the ground,” Thompson says.
oh honestly.
Kindall routinely lines up his votes in advance.
For Kindall and Thompson, everything is about race, not about educating students. This plan will not set Nashville back 50 years. That is nonsense. As the board continues making Incredibly Stupid Policy, the white middle class will continue their exit from the system, and when it's complete, Kindall, Thompson, et al, will have nothing left to diversify.
A variety of community stakeholders had plenty of opportunity to be involved in this plan on the front end. If they did not avail themselves of the opportunity, now they want to whine and pick up their toys and go home, cry racism? This is not a perfect plan. There will never be a perfect plan. But some plans are better than others, and this one is one of those. For years, we have been offered badly needed plans, and they were shot down for the sacred cow of "diversity." Deferring this plan to the next board will just give us more of the same. The plans always get deferred "to the next board," and then the next board does ... nothing. Vote on the damn plan. And move on. And, hey, Kindall should go find something else to do with his time, because his agenda is not about education and what's best for Nashville's students.
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Kindall's attempt to claim that the rezoning plan would sacrifice socio-economic diversity, as well as racial diversity, was one of the weakest claims he could possibly make. Many families in the well-off neighborhoods around Hillwood send their kids to private school, and I expect a turnaround in the next few years so that Hillwood will resemble its student body make-up twenty-five years ago, with a student body with a wide range of incomes. On the other hand, poorer neighborhoods are still within the Hillwood district, some of which have become more Hispanic in the last decade. On top of that, Bellevue has become more racially diverse over time. Kindall's hanging on to a forty or fifty year old vision of the area south of the river and west of West End/Harding, where north Nashville was a black enclave in a sea of white people. Glad the school board didn't put up with that argument.
It's an empirical question and one which should be closely monitored. Hillsboro High does not reflect the distict that it represents. If the school system can't figure out how to stop moving students/families around, no one will trust that where they are zoned will remain consistent over time.
Jeff:
I wouldn't automatically assume that Glover (of whom I have a generally low opinion, by the way) actually met with or lobbied other board members.
You acknowledge in your story that Glover had a reputation for yelling and bluster. Given his history, it's altogether possible that Glover believed that four others would vote with him and used this belief in an attempt to bluff and bully Garcia. No one (especially George Thompson) appears to have considered this possibility.
Karen Johnson's adamant denial that anyone lobbied her bolsters the likelihood of this scenario, I would think.
I have some beach front property for you in Colorado if you don't believe that the Board members are talking to and lobbying each other behind the scenes.
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