by Governor Bentley:
<<<<About noon Friday I posted about Governor Bentley appointing Matt Brown of Fairhope to the State Board of Education. I had no clue as to what was about to happen. I well remember as a south Alabama farm kid kicking the top off a fire ant mound and watching the angry little critters gush out. Friday brought back those memories as hits on this site jumped and jumped and jumped. By midnight, 4,245 had dropped by.
Obviously I had knocked the scab off a festering wound and educators were quick to vent their concern and dismay that the governor chose someone only 28 years old with no apparent history of being involved with public education to be one of only eight members of a board that oversees 1,500 schools, 733,000 students and a multi-billion dollar budget. I got calls and emails from can to can’t. Even one from a teacher in Italy who once taught in Winfield. Their tone was unrelentingly critical. One called it “the pathetic abuse of an office.” A school superintendent said, “the storm clouds keep rolling in.” A local school board member told me, “it’s a sad day for Alabama.” “I am freaked. I am furious. But we are powerless,” a Baldwin County resident posted on Facebook. An email from a Republican member of the legislature said, “Very concerning to all educators is an understatement.”>>>
Full article:http://www.larryeducation.com/governor-turns-his-back-on-educators-part-ii/
