The power to know
Editor, Daily News:
Do the members of the Collier County School Board know why they serve, from whom they derive their powers or what they have been empowered to do?
For primers, I would suggest they read the works of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. They will find they, and the superintendent of schools, Dennis Thompson, have no power other than those given to them by the people of Collier County. This is called the social contract.
Concomitant with the powers we have invested in them is the responsibility to supervise what goes on in the school district. Based on that theory, I judge all of the board members and the school administrators a dismal failure.
Their recent dismissal of our loyal custodians to cover up for their failure to construct a fiscally sound budget is inexcusable. It indicates the ineptitude of all the administrators and the board members. I believe we are all working in an acephalus school district.
Now they say they know not why Richard Withers, the School Board attorney, is being investigated and possibly dismissed or allowed to abrogate his contract. The public has a right to know. To do otherwise is wrong. We have empowered them to know. We deserve to know what is going on in the Collier County schools.
Who runs this district — the people we have elected or a superintendent who seems to know little about the sentiments of the taxpayers in Collier County?
T.A.B., Chairman, Save Our Schools, Teacher, Lely High School
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To "T.A.B., Chairman, Save Our Schools, Teacher, Lely High School" --
I think you are a very, very big doo-doo head.
Signed,
Denni$ Thomp$on
Doctorite in Ed Psych
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