Did San Diego School Board Overstep Its Bounds?
School Board Action Divides San Diegans
San Diego School Board voted 5-0 to restrict school employees' travel to Arizona. The action was taken to protest Arizona's new immigration law.
While the Board voted unanimously, San Diegans had doubts on the School Board's stand on Arizona's law. Here's a sampling.
- San Diegans found themselves further divided resulting from the Board's action.
- What is San Diego's School Board doing setting policy on relationships with other states? The school board voted to restrict school employees' travel and conference attendance in Arizona.
- This includes a ban on teachers attendance at professional conferences. Let's hear it for keeping California teachers behind the ball in professional training and updated skills.
- Let's protect San Diego's teachers from the purported profiling that goes on in Arizona. Does it matter that visiting teachers would need to break the law first before being subject to said profiling?
- It is the San Diego School Board after all. What right does it have to exert authority or jurisdiction in another state?
- The School Board's policy stopped short of warning parents and students about traveling to and through Arizona. Since when does a school board tell anybody where they can and cannot go?
- Why isn't the Board busy with budget management, keeping teachers, running the schools in San Diego?
- While looking to Arizona for what goes on there, San Diego ignores the mire of huge debt from teachers pensions and union payments. California is broken. Why is the view on Arizona at all?
The San Diego School Board ought to get its own house in order before passing judgments elsewhere. Rev. David Brown said it all, "We elected the school board of this city to educate our kids." He said further that workable solutions, not irrational response, are required for the country and all the states to move forward together.
Published by Lorraine Yapps Cohen
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21 Comments
Post a CommentI agree with Melissa. good job.
This should not be a focus of a school district. nice job.
Excellent job, Lorraine. :-)
What is the lesson we're teaching our children? Everybody keeps implementing arbitrary laws - who can keep up with them all?
All of which is illustrative of why our schools - as a whole - are failing our children. Hows about the school boards focus on education instead of political indoctrination? Great article. Thanks.
short answer: Yes! Excellent report and presentation Lorraine. These so called Americans are boycotting an American state, but I bet their moral compass all of a sudden breaks as they book their next trip to Mexico or China. BUYcott Arizona!
Really good article and topic! It never ceases to amaze me the things little groups with some authority chose to dwell on rather than deal with the issues they were called together for! The mayor of my city is making a national spectacle out of himself and our city since he decided to post a ticker sign showing the money being wasted in Iraq each day. He can't solve any pertinent local issues, so he feels he has to overstep his bounds and insult all US soldiers and their families as well the majority of us locals who feel he is an incompetent buffoon!
Raises important questions! I think when people in Indianapolis object to what you are doing in your state, we should all go downtown to the Circle and burn our socks! I guess that will show you!
You've raised some important questions here. Great job!
In a word: yes.