PPP not yet releasing school poll results

You seem pretty pissed off that John Tedesco did not give you a prompt response to your email, while you bemoan our becoming an "unsocial society."  Pick up the phone and call him, his telephone number is public information.  Or, write him a letter since his mailing address is public information. 

But we all know Gurley is about as far from a gentleman as possible.

but as you say, if one person doesn't rise to the bar, that doesn't excuse someone else's failure. (I'm not saying Gurley does or doesn't, but I agree with the sentiment you've made earlier that comparative statements are generally weak.)

Are you arguing in favor of not understanding the rules of a public meeting in a well-known adversarial relationship? I didn't see Bob calling her dumb, but a lack of sophistication (I don't consider it being 'dumb' but an important distinction) in a public role is a serious issue.

But this is what caught my eye:

And who cares if she doesn't use e-mail.  I wish more people didn't.  We are being quite an unsocial society. 

For a public servant in 2009, I do. Nor do I believe that email capability necessarily co-relates with age. As for email making us more unsocial, I don't see it. We have become more uncivil. Social demographers love to bemoan how suburbia has destroyed once tight communal relationships, only I see too much evidence to the contrary. Personally I've forged tighter bonds with my neighbors here than I ever did in even the tighter and more cozy quarters of a Manhattan apartment. Did email lead us to this? I highly doubt it; people tend to put to much into hope or despair into any technology. (Talk radio is another matter; for both sides.)

One tangent. Social demographers, such as that supported what the previous board tried to achieve, don't "get" what matters the most. They are smart people but they look at the same data points others look at where we see the Big Dipper, they see 7 stars of specific type with a historically immutable visual relationship that they can describe preciously with math, but without the poetry of "Hey, it's a Big Dipper!" They look at a school and see where a majority of children and adults of a specific discipline come together and work backwards from there. We parents see a school as a place where children go to learn and teachers are vital in helping them to do so.

It's a world of difference.

What a thoughtful and convincing argument! The hell with rules and technology. Who needs 'em? LOL