Re: “Urge Seattle schools to hire a leader who values civics education” (July 2, Opinion):
Whereas I actually agree with the headline, I positively don’t agree with the decision to motion. Please don’t contact faculty board members and urge them to rent a pacesetter who is devoted to mock elections. It’s precisely this stage of micro-advocacy that has landed us with Pupil Outcomes Centered Governance, an excessive type of coverage governance designed to maintain board members out of all these programmatic choices. The byproduct of SOFG is a board unable to have interaction meaningfully in the true problems with our district.
I agree that civic simulations make for nice studying. I led the workforce that created Washington State Mannequin United Nations for highschool college students in 1999. I might hope a brand new superintendent would worth world training, and but it feels presumptuous for me to prescribe Mannequin UN as the tactic.
Given the state of our nation and world, I ponder if we’d focus our superintendent and faculty board election conversations on why public faculties matter, and what values and rules we wish them to pursue. Let’s get settlement on these earlier than we argue about how training might be delivered.
Nancy Bacon, Seattle
