• Clear sky   • 39°     Clear sky  Stu Rodman Says Racism On
BCSB NOT Newsworthy  There's a blog in the IP this morning
concerning a letter that good ol' Stu sent regarding the
reporting of Michael River's stated reason for casting the lone
vote against a new school superintendent.  It seems that Stu
still has visions of policy governance swimming about inside his
head, left over from his days on the school board.  He doesn't
think it newsworthy that a school board member bases his votes
on his/her racial bias instead of the merits of a question.  He
said, in part:  "The Beaufort Gazette story, also published in
the Packet, that one school board member preferred a black
superintendent was not particularly newsworthy or helpful. . ."
Given the recent "outrage" on a national level about similar
comments how can he not see that it was newsworthy. It's
newsworthy and relevant to the national trend and it is
newsworthy and relevant locally in that it reveals one of the
base problems with the school district - per