Golly, but people who want to make a mountain out of a molehill can always count on the Trib. Its too bad it doesn’t work the other way round.
School Board member Gary Glass has alarmed some parents so much for taking a picture of a school choir performing at a school board meeting that they’ve turned it into a federal case. It ranks right up there with the Norshore Theater’s Gentleman’s Club. Mr. Glass will have no alternative now but to commit suicide.
Parents of East High’s accapella choir, the Choraliers, had the choir’s director, Mr. Upton, send a paranoid email to the School Board demanding to know for what reason Mr. Glass took a picture of the choir during its public performance at a School Board meeting.
Good Question and I’m certainly glad no one simply called Gary to find out. Better to fan the flames of paranoia with a public email.
Perhaps Glass was going to use the photo in his futile three-year quest to give Duluth a vote on the half billion dollar Red Plan (Shudder) which has led to the decimation of the school district’s music program. Maybe he was going to post the photo on a porn site. There’s no telling to what nefarious purpose the 68-year old Glass might have put the photo. Perhaps the Board ought to pass a policy forbidding anyone from taking photos at school district events. Oh, I forgot. School Board policies are not enforceable.
For those readers who are worried about child endangerment I’m going to reveal the photo another school board member took of the ENTIRE East Choir in 1999 and which was shockingly posted on the Internet two years later.
I took the picture in 1999. I posted it two years later, immediately after 9-11. No parents called up to complain about my posting
