Eric Christen at it again

I was fortunate(?) enough to be in attendance at this month's Harrison District 2 School Board Meeting when Eric Christen showed up and spewed his rhetoric in front of the School Board and the audience.

Too say that this man is rude would be an understatement. He directly questioned the morality of the Board Members and personally attacked Superintendent Vic Meyers. His rantings were border-line psychotic. It's too bad that rhetoric and confidence aren't enough to be an effective leader, because Christen has these two traits down. Unfortunately, he understands nothing about the needs of children and the public education system, otherwise he and his cohorts would not have turned District 11 into the circus that it has become. He is, at best, a mis-guided citizen that believes he is helping the community, and, at worst, a shill for voucher-happy business/political interests looking to make their own investment into the privatization of the public school system.

I recommend that everyone concerned with what has happened in School District 11 get involved in the local school board elections this year. We are going to have to work hard to keep the business interests OUT of our school systems and keep the interests of the children as the top priority. They have the money to push their corporate agenda, we have the people to push the education agenda. Let's keep public schools public!