Maryland public schools can and will defy even the Maryland State Board of Education in their quest to appease private corporations. What are the school administrators getting out of this? Please ask them.
Parents from Anne Arundel County appealed the decision of the Anne Arundel Board of Education to build a cell tower on the Magothy River Middle School playground to the Maryland State Board of Education. The parties brought their case to an Adminstrative Law Judge, as directed by the Maryland State Board of Education, and the judge's decision has been transmitted to the Maryland State Board of Education.
And, guess what? The parents have a very good chance of winning their appeal! Yet, the Anne Arundel County Board of Education is permitting the construction of this cell tower to proceed before the Maryland State Board of Education releases their decision.
The cell tower will be up in a few days and the parents who have played by the rules and followed the appropriate administrative procedure will be steamrolled. The cell tower will be up.
What's the lesson here for our children? Cheat, lie and scam the people you serve. Get away with anything you can when you are a public school administrator or Board of Education member. We look forward to seeing our children carry this lesson from their role models with them out into the world. This is what we want in young adults, right?
The pictures below were taken today, July 23, 2015, and show the construction of a cell tower on the Magothy River Middle School playground despite the fact that the Anne Arundel Board of Education knows that the decision to build this cell tower has been appealed to the Maryland State Board of Education, that the parents have a high likelihood of prevailing, and that the Maryland State Board of Education has not released their final Opinion.
Nothing like putting the cart before the horse.
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