"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." Albert Einstein
This is a three part video of the May 5, 2011 Huntsville City Schools Board of Education Work Session dealing with Amy Sledge’s Presentation on Special Education. Specially, Dr. Robinson questions Ms. Sledge and Dr. Moore concerning the Special Needs segregation plan that Ms. Sledge and Dr. Moore are currently implementing. Here is the [...]
. . . a life of service to others is a life worth living . . .
Wow, what a week. I’m sorry for having taken so long to post again, but I’ve been exhausted. So on my birthday, at the end of a week without power, without ice, without hot baths, without internet, without “WATCH TV” as the boy shouted just an hour into a week without TV, without hot food, [...]
Well I had planned an extensive posting on the seven school board candidates for tonight, but the Huntsville Utilities, the TVA, and oh, I don’t know, God maybe, decided that the night would be better spent reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by candlelight to the girl. Suffice it to say that there are [...]
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. –Albert Einstein I usually do my best to not post angry. I’m not going to succeed this time. Two of my son’s teachers/aides have been wrongly pink-slipped in the last twenty-four hours. This attack on our students and their education has got to stop, and [...]
These are comments that I’m planning to make to the School Board tonight.–rw I am here tonight to share with you a success story from Challenger Elementary. While I am a “special needs parent,” I am not here to speak for my special needs child, but rather for all of our children. My son has [...]
When the mist breaks, when the canopy opens to the stars, when the smoke is blown away by a cool breeze, that’s when life begins. Those are the fleeting minutes that I hope to find. Those are the times that I fight for with my boy. It’s the connection that keeps me awake when he’s [...]
So it seems that playing in a park with the kids at the beginning of an abbreviated spring break isn’t a good idea for someone trying to work with the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education these days. One must be constantly vigilant or else risk missing out on the “secret” meetings the Board decides [...]
