Thursday, November 18, 2004
More Schrenko
It's heartening to see that all of Georgia is rallying behind Our Miss Schrenko.0 comments
AJC: More than Schrenko's fur is fake
She came onto the statewide stage as a strait-laced Southern school marm, just trying to cut back a top-heavy bureaucracy, restore "local control" to schools and purge classrooms of such crazy ideas as homosexuality being "an acceptable lifestyle."
She left office eight years later maligned as a cheat and a fraud, having created the distinct impression that any craziness in state education emanated from her office
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She didn't even like the PTA, once sending out a memo that she would speak to "teacher/parent organizations except . . . PTA." When confronted about the memo, she said she couldn't remember why she wrote it. Was it because they had too many frumpy, middle-aged mothers running their local chapters? Would she have liked them better if they had used the money from school fund-raisers to get manicures and buy Prada purses?
She lost a battle over proposed public school Bible classes that supposedly would have taught the religious text as history and literature, but which actually pushed a decidedly antediluvian agenda. The curriculum materials carried suggested exam questions, including this one: "What was woman's purpose?" The possible answers are a) to care for the man; b) to bear children; c) to help the man; d) to tell the man what to do since he was so inferior. The answer, according to the study guide, was "c."
If [Linda] Schrenko were really interested in Bible study, she might have spent more time mulling those verses about lying, stealing and exploiting the disadvantaged. Some of the money she is accused of stealing was supposed to buy computer equipment for deaf students.
As you can see, it's good to have friends nearby.
posted by Gotham 1:13 AM
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