Jim Kent's Rapid City Journal column yesterday is about his efforts to produce a story comparing how public schools educate versus how homeschoolers education.
Simple, right? Well, not once you start fighting the bureaucratic animal for information. He got lots of runaround, obfuscation and "we don't want any of that here."
Kent did manage to put together his story (here), and it's a pretty good one, but without any help from the Rapid City school district.
Kent's analysis from his Journal piece:
Here's my problem. Why would any school, particularly one in a state where so many are seeking to place us 'on the world map,' decline the opportunity to blow their horn about how well they teach their students? What is it that these school districts don't want people to know? And if those who control the school system in these areas won't allow their teachers and students to talk freely about their school experience, what else isn't being permitted to be said inside these schools?
This "circle the wagons" approach that we've seen from many public schools and school districts for some time isn't helping them or their case. I've interviewed a number of school officials in recent years, and while some are helpful, others act like the cat who ate the canary--and act like you have no right to even inquire about the missing canary in question.
Like many government employees, too many of them have forgotten who is paying their salaries and who they work for: the people.
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