Shot in the Dark

Epilogue

Over at TN, Swiftee notes a sad event involving an involuntarily-key figure in the history of the Twin Cities center-right blogosphere…:

 It seems that [former Saint Paul school principal Zelma] Wiley has passed away…I’d like to express my sincere sympathies to the family of Zelma Wiley.

…and the “columnist” who dragged her into the public eye:

 I firmly believe that she had the best interests of her students in mind when she agreed to work with Nick Coleman, She could not have known that Nick had a well deserved reputation of a shameless panderer and prevaricator and I don’t think that she deserved the abuse that rightfully belonged to Coleman.

 

My condolences to Ms. Wiley’s family; she was the principal of my daughter’s first school, and in my conversations with her she was always a courteous person who, to be fair, inherited a very difficult task (Maxfield is in one of St. Paul’s worst neighborhoods), and did the very best she could.

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5 responses to “Epilogue”

  1. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    Good remarks. It’s too easy for those of us on the right to attack the public education establishment. There are those nasty union hacks and those teachers in more well-off districts who milk the system.

    But anyone who wants to and can teach in schools like this, I have much respect for. You don’t take a job like this just to get your summers off.

  2. peevish Avatar
    peevish

    Condolenses to her family. Like the vast majority of teachers, she was doubtless well intended, and at her core, an altruist, to get into that line of work and stay so long in what is a very frustrating maze of beaurocracy and ungrateful and often stingy communities. Teachers sometimes/often push some responsibilities off on parents – in part due to idiotic lawsuits that ‘we the people’ awarded them – moronically.

    Only a tweak here, but “center-right blogosphere”, you’re not center.. not close. Your position on issues is WAY off the mainstream on nearly every point, case in point, Iraq.

  3. Mitch Avatar
    Mitch

    Only a tweak here, but “center-right blogosphere”, you’re not center.. not close.

    From Sacramento, Salt Lake City is “far east”.

  4. Master of None Avatar
    Master of None

    “Center-right” does not equal “center”. Is that difficult to understand?

  5. Chuck Avatar
    Chuck

    Didn’t this subject come up last week? Ann Coulter is right. Michael Savage is right. David Duke is far right.

    The Northern Alliance bloggers are center-right.

    Coming from a family of teachers, I can tell you the most common phrase utter by an administrater” “We might get sued if we do that”. Makes running a school difficult.

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