Hijacking of forums

The untoward behavior of the public participants in the Board of Education open meetings has become more than just unruly, but has quickly descended into abhorrent mob rule. The strident and shrill group of those who insist upon immediate reversion to local control of the Little Rock School District continue to exhibit their specific and narrow agenda by hijacking these forums and preventing any free of exchange of ideas and suggestions for the future of the district. It is quite obvious this group has shown its lack of respect for reasoned and inclusive discussion and has easily and blindly forgotten the previous 30 or so years of a local school board that allowed the district to spiral into an educational cellar, ignored the needs of maintaining the physical infrastructure, hired and fired superintendents at an alarming rate, and wasted millions of dollars of state desegregation money.

Do the citizens of the city who pay for LRSD, and the majority of the patrons, parents and voters who will eventually elect the members of a local school board really want folks like this running the board?

Of course, as with any group of narrow-minded and self-righteous fanatics, anyone who disagrees with any portion of their agenda or even suggests the free exchange of thoughts, opinions or different answers is labeled as an insensitive, uninformed clod and, of course, blatant racist.

It is truly unfortunate that these meetings that could possibly result in some reasoned, inventive suggestions and even inspired answers and avenues can never be presented in a forum that has been taken over by a gang that has no intention of allowing truly reasonable discussion or free exchange of ideas.

JONATHAN ROZWENC

Little Rock