Dallas ISD Trustees again vote to suppress democracy

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dallas ISD Trustees again vote to suppress democracy

Board of Trustees

The vote this evening to again change Dallas ISD Board policy BE (Local) to prevent an individual Trustee from pulling an agenda item for a separate vote was as follows.

Voting to suppress democracy and require two Trustees:

Mike Morath
Lew Blackburn
Bernadette Nutall
Edwin Flores
Nancy Bingham
Eric Cowan

Voting to uphold the right of an individual Trustee to pull an item for a separate vote:

Adam Medrano
Bruce Parrott
Carla Ranger

The vote was 6-3 against democracy.

It is the second time this has been done since 2006 and for the same reason.

The purpose is to make dissent and public discussion of public issues more difficult.

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Dallas ISD Trustees again vote to suppress democracy

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