93. Conservative- Liberal School Board, Jefferson Co., Colorado

These times tic-tock the swing from conservative school boards to liberal school boards, yet both are out of synch with the times.  Those bi-polar positions are so traditional as to be incredibly boring to any thinking baby-boomer who went through the sixties and seventies, …and boring to the millennial generation.  Both yawn at this schizophrenic, linear, cause-effect thinking that is soooo obsolete.  Their positions are out of touch and out of tune with the times, but so connected to the paternalistic, “I know what is best for you!” thinking.  We see again history repeating itself, to everyone’s regret.
  
Anyone who is in touch with “vinyl” records, which are THE ultimate analog measurement of audio, will know that sometimes old records will recycle the needle into the last groove, repeating ad nauseam the notes and bars of music over and over again, until someone comes along and gently applies pressure on the tone arm to move the needle into the next groove.  Ahhhh!  Relief!  The music continues.  Now, what did it take to move the needle off the repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat- repeat-repeat-repeat mode?  Just a bit of energy that CREATED the continuation of the original melody and lyrics.  Hmmmm.

What is needed in Jefferson County is a creative touch to move the needle of bi-polar politics to a universal center, one that everyone can agree on, one that could last many decades and even centuries.  What can everyone agree on?  It is obvious to me … the values that have sustained our species for almost a half-a-million years.  Now, how does this apply to a school board in election year?  Obviously, what this bi-polar competition has missed is asking the vital question: “What sustains our species (our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren) into the decades in the future?”  In their bi-polar political rivalry they have forgotten the prime question of human social existence, “What works?”  Their trite political positions make education from “What works?” to an adversarial political agenda that is UNsustainable.  What is needed is the socially sustainable, universal, central position that serves all for all time.  What will sustain future generations is “Reality Education.”  … education that  teaches the mistakes as well as the successes.  Learning from past assures the future.