Lets Go Here for awhile All right, damn it.
But, if a school district requires a referendum to keep or improve its capacity to teach and to learn, it has not only the right but the responsibility to advocate for its passage. There isn't a shred of similarity between this and Norm Coleman's boondoggle to shove a stadium down taxpayers' throats and have public dollars funneled once again into the coffers of rich men, and in doing so enabling a dysfunctional sport to continue its slide toward irrelevance while freezing out the common citizen from affording the games. What blindsides conservatives in all of this is their anger over the fact that teachers belong to a union. The union is the enemy, so the teachers become the enemy and in trying to make the enemy suffer, you drain the energy from a system supposedly in place to serve children who are innocent of any political position. Public education in this state and everywhere else is a disaster waiting to happen because the fights over resources are based on entirely the wrong premises - that one side, the teachers, are out to rape taxpayers, not because they teach badly, but because they're organized to advance their interests.