Why the right hates community organizers

by: susanthe

Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 14:24:02 PM EST
Massive cuts proposed to the Conway school budget have been a bone of contention for some time. Regular readers will remember a quote from budget committee member Ray Shakir who said:


"Preparing kids for an adequate education is acceptable," he said. "Preparing kids for a good education is acceptable. Preparing kids for an outstanding world class education is unacceptable. We have to balance the requirements with the fact this isn't an a community with luxury incomes, it's kind of blue collar. We have to develop an education as efficiently as possible."

Ray Shakir's one of those folks who got his somewhere else, and moved here to the NH tax haven for the wealthy to tell the locals how to educate their kids.  
It made people mad. Some of those folks who got mad are running for school committee. Some of them are running for selectmen. All of them got organized, and brought their friends and neighbors to the budget committee meeting last night.

WMUR was there. There's a video at the link.

Even better is this tape which wasn't used on the 11 pm broadcast last night.

On the tape, you'll hear Dr. Rich Laracy, a local pediatrician, respond to Shakir's comments that many special needs students will wind up on the public dole for the rest of their lives, so educating them is a waste of taxpayer money. Shakir and fellow budget committee member Doug Swett got up and walked out during the uproar. You can't hear it on the tape, but people were yelling "Hitler" at Shakir.

I am plenty cynical about national politics, BUT,  we can have an impact in our communities and in our state. It's time to start fighting back - hard.

"Ignorance is the worst disability." Rich Laracy
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