Only in Western New York: School Boards that make us go hmmmm...

By Elizabeth Scheinberg

When your school board spends hundreds of thousand of dollars in legal fees to obtain the name of an anonymous blogger
When your school board's attorney serves a cease and desist email addressed to "Concerned Hamburger"
When your school board actually subpeonas Google... yep, that Google... for the names of anonymous commenters because these commenters criticize the decisions and actions made in their capacity as locally elected officials.
When your school board starts suing teachers and/or members of the public for 'secretly taping' executive school board meetings... How on earth this trio got access and camaras in the room is beyond me.
If you finding yourself opining that the locally elected gang is a school "BOAR" of 'thin-skinned autocrats lavishly spending other people’s money to try and silence their critics."
Your school board is given the opportunity to extract itself from a lawsuit that seeks to punish bloggers who express their constitutional right to free speech in a public manner and that same school BOAR votes down the motion 3-2. Yes, now I understand why the bloggers at Hamburg Education Ethics blog call them the school BOAR/BORE.
Attribution belongs to http://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/the-chicago-way-transplanted-to-new-york/

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