Auntie Charo's Soapbox

One always has to watch t.v. news, if not for being better informed about what's happening, then for pure entertainment....the people in the news, entertaining the audience. Last night's news was pure entertainment for hubby and me!!! Nearly choked on the BBQ as we watched mouth-breather board chair of GPSS elected officio defending yellow rust water coming out of semi-working water fountains in GPSS schools being better than bottled water being brought in by students.
Mr. MBreather actually stood before parents who he appeared to be convinced to know better than....and told them that the water from the taps were actually more pure than the water from the bottle. He didn't specify which bottles so I'm assuming that he meant ALL bottles. WOW! I'm thinking that Aquafina, Evian and other off-island brands will be happy to know that they've been included with the others that are locally bottled, which I'm assuming Mr. MB's talking about, which if I were Pepsi or Foremost would ask Mr. MB how he got his information about the impurities of same and get him to retract the idea, etc., because now I'm doubting that the water's no better than that which I use to water the plants with. Either way, Mr. Mouth Breather was quite entertaining with his lack of knowledge on the island water and how his team of elected banditos are handling the bomb-making student problem in the schools.
If you want to make sure the students are bringing in real water or real drinks and not drinks that have been altered and can cause harm as in bombs...then have someone at all entrances that can check to see if these drinks are still sealed. If the seal is broken, then make the student take the unsealed drink to a garbage container and throw it away. If it contains a bomb, then it will explode with the rest of the garbage, that being better than in some hallway where innocent students are.
One of the reasons the students made the bomb is because they're upset...duh!!! We need to get to the reason they're upset. Has anyone gathered the kids and asked how they think they can handle the problem of safety in the schools-each school gathering the kids and asking the question. How best they can enter and leave the school and be safe at the same time. How they can keep from getting into fights, what their thoughts are about safety, about their teachers, their thoughts about school in general. We seem to be doing a lot about backpacks and bottled water/drinks but we haven't gotten the input of the children and how it's going to affect them. I saw some parents last night and agree with their thoughts. I think that if a parent wants to give his child bottled water because he/she thinks it's better for him/er than rusty water coming from a water fountain, than that parent's wishes should be respected...even if it means that the child hand carry the bottle to school outside of a bag.
In the meantime, I don't think we elected a school board to tell us that bottled water is worse than that which comes from the tap! I just wish the cameraman had panned the camera around the tables of those mouth breathers to see what they were drinking.......you can bet your bottom dollar that they weren't drinking Mr. Craddick's tap water!
Funny, funny those GPSS board members, they'd make me laugh but they're too pathetic!
On a side note....Mr. Big Time MB...says he's standing by his board members because they work hard......yeah...hard and long....never saw a board work so hard and long to get rid of a superintendent in all my life...suppose they'll relax now that he's outta there....chillax time, ya think?