In Your Opinion: School Board Misunderstands Its Role

By Bill Connell.

I was on vacation when the Board of Education goals came out. I opened my laptop, rolled my eyes and closed the laptop. I usually toss off an opinion over a cup of coffee for Speak Out, but this is too important to just riff so I have been thinking about it since then.

I don’t think this school board understands it role at this moment in time. 

The first thing that caught my attention was the use of white supremacy in the middle of an inclusivity and tolerance statement. I get the spirit of the remark, but this is not the mountains of Virginia.  This is Franklin.  Nobody does it better. Just by being who we are is a model. No it’s not perfect and never will be.  Working toward my real point, the “goal” has an “Irish need not apply” vibe.