TX BOE doomed

[andysocial]

Originally published at BunkBlog. You can comment here or there.

According to scuttlebutt, the leading candidate to replace crazy creationist dentist Don McLeroy on the Texas Board of Education is a woman who believes public education is unconstitutional, tyrannical and should be abolished.

This is why it’s so hard to understand conservatives. They insist on being in charge of organizations that they claim should not exist at all, then point to their own poor performance as proof that such organizations don’t work well.  Of course they don’t work when they’re run by people who hate them and want them abolished. Duh?

Would it be too much to ask that the state board of education include people who actually understand education and science and the arts? And if they happen to think that the board of education (or public schools) has a right to exist, that would be good too.

Comments

[danielmedic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think it's hard to understand at all. If your motivations are pure evil, and good people offer you a process by which you can gain control of their good works and wreck them, why shouldn't you take the opportunity?

There's not much we can do about this; it's part of the price we pay for being the good guys.