The Saint Paul School Board is going to debate, again, a resolution by a left-wing boutique pressure group to try to hamper military recruiters on Saint Paul school property.<\/p>\n
A source close to the issue says<\/p>\n
\nThe superintendent [says] there may be protesters there from the left. While they got the opt out form expanded, they are angry they did not get the recruiter ban from cafeterias. I suspect there has been pressure on the board to reconsider that issue at tomorrow night’s meeting.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nProof that madness doesn’t necessarily reign supreme at the SPPS…:<\/p>\n
I believe the superintendent is frustrated that\u00a0[the school board is] \u00a0spending so much time on this issue and not on the issues of student achievement. I fully agree with her, and I know you do to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And there’s a call to action, here:<\/p>\n
I know this is short notice, but if any of you can come to them meeting by\u00a0 6p.m. tomorrow to hear debate and be prepared to speak at 6:30 — if the left starts the attack at the podium. If they appear, do not sign up to speak until they have thrown the first punch. Otherwise they will have the last say …Let them speak first, then sign up. Or, ask if the sign up sheet is broken down by pro and con.If for some reason they don’t speak, and the debate seems to be controlled, then don’t inflame them. But…this time we will need to. Plus, we must force our differences with the left on this issue and drag them kicking and screaming back to the center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m mostly healthy and rarin’ to go, this time.\u00a0 I’ll be there. Think what you want about the military – but when it comes to giving opportunity to the working-class, minority and immigrant students that the district serves so very very badly<\/em>, the military has the best record around. The “student” group – and the board members who are carrying their water, Tom Goldstein and Ann Carroll – are upper-middle-class, Highland Park\/Crocus Hill\/Mac-Groveland limo paleoliberals who care about people of color, immigrants and the poor – the people who are most likely to see the military as a path to opportunity – only as far as they provide them a political sinecure.\u00a0 They need to be put back in their place.<\/p>\n
So I’ll see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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