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We told you all along that the athletic eligibility farce was a cover for much tougher enforcement of CMS’ arbitrary and capricious student assignment and staffing policies. That Pete Gorman would actually say out loud that he wants to prosecute parents who attempt to route around those policies settles that once and for all.
Think about the disconnect. Gorman and CMS brass plead for more parental involvement in the schools, but only on CMS’ terms. Good parents take whatever CMS gives them and never complain or question. Bad parents ask questions, point out conflicts, and ultimately, decide to take matters into their own hands where their kids are involved. Bad parents should be punished.
Think about what Pete Gorman says is the backstop of our public schools. Not a shared commitment to education every child, but the threat of arrest and prosecution by a clumsy, bumbling state. Brilliant. First gag orders on teachers and coaches, now threats against parents. We don’t have a change agent, we have Torquemada.
What this is telling us is that CMS cannot change. At least not for the better. It is effectively locked in a death spiral that ends in two ways — with dissolution or as a hollowed-out, shell of a system only serving those unwilling or unable to escape.
