I love rules and regulations, pages, and pages of them. When they get so plenteous as to be contradictory, I want new rules to iron out the differences. I want to read thousands of pages before I can know how to shut off my alarm in the morning. Then, it gets even better when jurisdictions argue over which is best to lord it over me.
Julie Ball of the Asheville Citizen-Times interviewed representatives of WNC school districts, seeking out official opinions about pending legislation that would increase the state’s balance of power in deciding which teachers get the axe. The reasoning, whether for state or local control, seems largely non-sequitur/ad-hominem. Party mantras, tenure, and paperwork are three reasons some consider important. Comments by readers are enough to make one hide under the desk.
Why should there be any laws about hiring and firing, anyway? In the private sector, lots of people are dismissed because they don’t fit in, but the laws make manipulative bosses subject outcasts to all sorts of torture to get them to leave of their own volition. It is amazing how grownups professing sophistication can be so shallowly emotional when it comes to change.
