Vic, sent me a link to this story yesterday and chided me about my not commenting on it. I had to email back and explain that I’ve been very busy and had a growing backlog of posts to make.
Here’s my reaction. These board members are silly. They were told by one of the $50,000 consultants they hired (That cost some poor teacher a job) that they have the power to remove Gary from the School Board so they are a little full of themselves. You wouldn’t know (They apparently don’t) that Gary has a constitutional right to have his own opinion. Of course, constitutional rights are just one of a long list of things that these School Board members don’t know a lot about like: education finance, conflicts of interest, sensible bidding processes, and anything about how much more important teachers are to a good education than pretty school buildings.
Here’s a little primer they ought to read on the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to our Constitution. And here’s something justice Douglas said in Harper v Virgina Board of Elections:
“For it is enough to say that, once the franchise is granted to the electorate, lines may not be drawn which are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
I defy the School District’s lawyers to read Justice Douglas’s entire opinion without shaking in their boots.
