Columbine High School is actually in the Jefferson County school
district, while the Littleton School District that suffered such
pedagogical reverses some time ago, while like Columbine being in the town
of Littleton, is actually in Arapahoe County, hence the two different
school districts even though they're in the same town - Littleton does
sprawl in multiple suburban directions.
the right-wing successes in the Littleton District schools did not
occur without historical origins. the men and women who ran on the same
platform were the very same men and women who had eighteen months earlier
had arrived at their children's school to participate in the school's
advisory committee on the direction curriculum and assessment should take.
They were catagorically denied access to the meeting by the principal who
explained that there were already parents on the advisory committee.
being shut out of the process they then went to the ballot, an old
american tradition. they won. they chucked out all programs that they
had been denied participation in. and by now they are no longer on the
school board.
i tell this story only to point out that some public schools in
this country are quite adverse to parent input if it doesn't fit their
predetermined program. being on the right should not automatically shut
one out of the process just as being any where else on the political
spectrum.
phillip
phillip white pwhite who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu
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A relation of surveillance, defined and regulated,
is inscribed at the heart of the practice of teaching, not
as an additional or adjacent part, but as a mechanism that
is inherent to it and which increases its efficiency.
Michel Foucault / Discipline & Punish
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