Thomas Ratliff, desperate to find a way to spin the ugly CSCOPE fiasco he sits at the center of, wrote a press release claiming parents must not care about CSCOPE if they aren’t using their money, time, and vacation days to come to Austin to attend his meeting.
Leave it to a lobbyist to think hanging around Austin is the only measure of political investment. For them it is true.
Not so for parents. Parents have kids and jobs and lives in full swing right now. The last thing they need to do is stop everything to attend a meeting hosted by the same government that has delivered, at exorbitant cost, this public school system that nobody likes.
Yes, parents should subject themselves to a meeting they don’t even know about, and likely to be dominated by the biggest CSCOPE apologist in the state, Ratliff, and a man who probably shouldn’t even be serving on the SBOE due to a conflict of interest.
Or perhaps parents, possessors of a quality exceedingly rare in Austin: sense, prefer to simply replace officials who think their job is to find and protect primo places at the public trough.
Whatever is said about involved legislators, legislators not shy about putting Ratliff and company in their place, trying to attach such a standard to parents is a lot like CSCOPE – so much nonsense.