Yes, good news for Pine-Richland residents: Superintendent Dr. Mary Bucci's contract will not be renewed. Hallelujah! She has been a disaster. Bad news for the Marxist Symposium - who in their right mind would allow that to continue?
Now Bucci has decided to resign in January as broken by the Patch site. Bucci's legacy will be lasting. New elementary math program at $275,000+, new reading curricula at hidden cost (both financially and educationally), new principal in every building. Constructivist STEM program across all subjects in high school. No parent involvement in major decisions except as mandated by law. The marxist annual high school "Symposium on Education" that brazenly showcased every leftist value (e.g. pro-communist, anti-Israel, anti-Christian, pro-United Nations, pro-global warming, anti-capitalist, America-hating) instilled in the students throughout the course of their Pine-Richland educational careers. And it was a surprise that Bucci's job was in jeopardy?
It is incomprehensible that any of the board directors would have wanted to keep her on - including the new one who shouldn't be on the board if he didn't know what has been going on for the last 4 years! The audacity of advising only Bucci supporters to the meeting just shows how unethical certain board members have become. Per the Post-Gazette: "The lengthy meeting began with a public comment session in which virtually every speaker, including former board members, parents and educators, spoke in favor of Mrs. Bucci. Several criticized the lack of transparency in the process." Read more. I feel cheated to have been denied the opportunity to once again voice my concerns to the board.
Will a new superintendent really have an impact? Sadly, no, not unless parents start paying attention to the content of their children's education even when their kid seems to be doing well. As the Presidential election results confirm, 80% of people from age 18 to 30 have socialist views, and this is due to the bias in the public education system. And about 20% of college students need remedial courses even after a "good" public education. Parents need to realize that good sports programs and pretty buildings and fancy new programs do not matter when your kids wind up with a different set of values than you have - values attained through their indoctrination called "critical thinking" against traditional American culture.
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You do understand that bucci is a conservative right? Don't use words you don't understand, or even speak about ideas that you don't understand. Marxism and socialism are both examples of words you don't understand. The other thing is that I don't care if our school is being liberal or conservative, but don't you think that high school students are old enough to be exposed to different ideas and form are own opinion? I find your blogs completely irritating and utterly obnoxious because you are treating high school students as if they are babies that do not know right from wrong. This is truly disturbing. You are like a gunman shooting down the ideas of high school students, by trying to shut down our thinking. You might as well kill all of us because you are not only insulting the teachers, but also calling the students stupid. Its ironic because your the stupid one
ReplyDeleteStupid is as stupid does. No, teenagers cannot discern truth from lies, fact from fiction, neutral from biased. They don't have the knowledge base as a reference point. Children's brains keep developing into their 20s. The NEA knows this as do the administrators. Teens are impressionable and this is why unethical left wing teachers work hard to impose their leftist bias. Right wing people believe in everyone's right to bring up their own children with their own world view, even if they are ignorant anti-American socialists.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Bucci let progressive teachers spread their propaganda is evidence of how poor of a leader she was. It is laughable that anyone would call her a conservative. To the first anonymous poster above, you sound maniacal and your name calling is childish. I agree with Crosbycat and am happy to know that someone is tracking the strategic progressivism of PRSD.
ReplyDeleteAs a graduate of Pine-Richland, I find it amusing that you are incapable of understanding that the facilitators of the Symposium, throughout my high school career, provided us with readings from all sorts of authors. I remember reading both Mein Kampf and Marx... clearly all so that my evil instructors could indoctrinate me with their leftist views, right? Wrong. What the Symposium does is it allows high school students the ability to deliberate and sort out their thoughts at a level much greater than that encouraged in the classroom - maybe the real problem is exactly the opposite of what you claim is the bane of our community's education system: that we don't let students think for themselves. The students who continually participate are progressive and open-minded, but represent all parts of the political continuum. They realize that Gibsonia is only a microcosm of modern America, and that students can still hold conservative political beliefs whilst being progressive. Ad hominem attacks on the superintendent are unnecessary, as much as I do agree that the millions being pumped into buildings and sports is ridiculous. Until you realize that students having a "different set of values" than their parents is not necessarily an example of ineffably appalling youth indoctrination that warrants conservative societal scorn, you will continue to post jaded blog posts to readers who find you to be nothing but a complaining, angry person who can't come to terms with the times and the reality of the community that we live in.
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