The Lone Star Girl found out a few days ago that the Mayor was scheduled to come speak to the Career Club at her school before school yesterday. She promptly began passing out informational pamphlets about Las Brisas at school and made posters at home at night. Yesterday, she took the posters and some anti-Las Brisas stickers to school. She and her friends wore the stickers and held the posters and waited politely for the Mayor to finish his presentation on his career and call for questions. Then they asked some.
After she asked one question about Las Brisas, the faculty and staff and the Career Club guy wouldn't let her ask any more questions, even when the Mayor tried to call on her because no one else had their hand up. She was upset because other kids got to ask multiple questions about other topics and the Mayor got to tell alot of lies about Las Brisas after her question without her being able to follow up with questions that would set the record straight. She was afraid that people who didn't know the truth would believe him.
After the presentation was over and everyone else was interested in cake, she went over and thanked the Mayor for coming and talking to them. She tried then to ask why he would not listen to the Nueces County Medical Society about the health risks Las Brisas would pose to vulnerable children and the new assistant principal made her leave.
See, I thought public schools existed to prepare children to be participating members of our representative democracy.
I am proud of my girl. She planned her action all by herself and inspired other young citizens.
1 comment:
Good for LSG, and shame on the adults who shy away from the hard questions. I'm guessing they knew they couldn't answer her questions without lying or having to change.
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