Mrs. Lynch,
Your most recent reply has the clarity and initial specifics that were missing in your first post. Everyone has an opinion, but some opinions can be wrong. Not all opinions are based in fact, or held with honest conviction. With this in mind, folks interested in this issue want to know where the people involved stand, and why. Not a reaffirmation that what the public at large consider to be important things are considered, well, important, lol.
I have family and friends involved in the education field locally and elsewhere as teachers, students, and parents of students, and it is frustrating as heck to see how the often-times fickle trends in local and national politics, education, and administrators "doing something" for the sake of saying they did -independent of practical sensibilities- negatively effects a community, students in particular. Things were frustratingly vague in your first post, and in questioning why they were so vague, I assumed the worst.
Thank you for clarifying your position in your reply. And I did not mean for my comments regarding "cognitive ability" and "small town politics" as directed at you personally, despite my issue with the vagueness of your earlier post. The cause for concern here is that the school committee (as a group) can't see the difference between curriculum and extracurricular (or cannot collectively agree, as a group, that such a distinction exists), and the very notion that was the case makes one ponder (with exasperation) "how on earth could this be the case?!!? UNBELIEVABLE!!" Based on your follow up reply, where you personally stand sounds pretty straight forward to me, and possessing of the grasp of nuance necessary in dealing with the question.
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