Violence, discipline problems, bullying are rampant in our district. We represent just over six percent of the state's enrolled student population yet nearly 20% of the students suspended or expelled in this state are enrolled in the Des Moines School District...
...Since the arrival of our new superintendent the board tripled the number of superintendents, created three executive director positions, have tons of administrative staff yet not a single one of our three dozen elementary schools and only one of our middle schools has a full-time librarian. Why hasn't the Register addressed the top heavy nature of our district and the role it plays in our current academic crisis?
As a student of history I understand that at times the 4th estate has not been the independent voice informing and educating the public but the "champion" of the status quo. Although our local media in general has failed to cover a number of major Des Moines School District storylines, The Register has singularly failed this community by going the extra step of shielding this community from fundamental truths regarding our District.
I can understand the political motives of a Board that has been silent on key academic concerns crippling this District for years. The voters will decide if this has been acceptable.
In recent years Des Moines School Board incumbents have found the public isn't happy with the board's failures. Name the legislators representing districts covering Des Moines defeated in re-election bids, the county supervisors or the city council members? I can but most can't because such defeats are so rare.
Now name the incumbents of the past few years running for re-election on the Des Moines School Board that haven't been defeated, especially sitting board presidents? On the other hand the voters don't get to weigh in on The Register's manipulation of the flow of information regarding the Des Moines School District. I did a search of The Register's archives. In the last six months I've been in the paper about 50 times, including a Duffy spoof this past Friday. Yet the litany of concerns expressed in this instant commentary, and many other pressing concerns, have rarely warranted Des Moines Register ink or investigation.
Why aren't these issues important to The Register? That's the question those of you that care about this district, and the education of our children, now need to start asking The Register.
This is Narcisse at his best.
I can tell you why the Register doesn't explore these issues: because they believe the racist "liberal" party line that champions race-based diversity number games over equalizing the educational opportunities within each neighborhood's school. Forget the individual child. Forget the neighborhood. Let's throw them all into groups, shuffle them like cards, and move them down the conveyor belt.
Long gone are the days of unequal schools in "black" and "white" neighborhoods, if even that ever existed in Des Moines. I remember when busing started in the 1970s in Des Moines. It was all a numbers game fueled by white northern liberal guilt for wanting to have the same alleged problems as other parts of the country.
But what are you going to do? Run for the school board? It's an unpaid, thankless job filled with endless criticism if you don't toe the party line. Just ask Jon Narcisse.
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