Our community's conversation about how to best educate our children has become more and more opaque and derivative. On Tuesday, I read a Tennessean article about how the Democratic Party will soon deny Elissa Kim access to its voter database. The article focused on the nuts-and-bolts of campaigning and how to infer a partisan label in a nonpartisan election.
No part of the article had anything to do with the shared value of educating our children.
This isn't the fault of the reporter; I learned in my brief stint as journalist that the media, for the most part, reflect the conversation of the larger community.
This is our fault for trying to have a conversation that keeps getting off-topic.
What does it say about us that we seem to think affixing a partisan label to a candidate will help us in deciding which candidate will best govern our schools?
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