District 7 School Board candidate Bill Davidson has commented on a couple of my posts that involved him.

He responded to my opinion that candidates for public office should follow the rules (scroll way down) and not overtly campaign on school grounds.  He akins his actions to his incumbent opponent's appearances at school functions.  He further states that his recent campaigning efforts only took place on public sidewalks, which is certainly allowable and proper. 

Davidson also says he has never met me before, which is understandable.  I try to jog his memory in my response

He also takes exception to my reporting of events preceeding his resignation as an 11 year veteran math teacher at Page High School.  Davidson challenges my information by saying I got things backwards.  He asserts that,  "... I was assigned the "lower level" classes after I resigned."

In my response I have asked him to provide some clarification on why Page's administration would assign classes to a teacher who had already resigned.  I also offer him a forum to explain why he tendered his February resignation if it was not because of the class re-assignments.

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Update:  Conversations have also erupted over at the ABC forum (which is an open forum - and as such, does not necessarily reflect the views of ABC of Guilford County.)

A previous post I made started a great discussion of parental involvement in our schools and how to attain it.  However, one poster thinks my questions to Bill Davidson should be ignored and that I not be allowed a "pulpit" to ask questions.  What she is in effect saying is "we don't need to know any particulars, I'm supporting Bill simply because he thinks like me - the High Point Plan sucks".  I, and other potential constituants, respectfully disagree.

I, too, think the High Point plan has problems.  That doesn't preclude me from asking questions of those who are seeking to lead us, however.

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Lex Alexander, wearing his N&R editor hat, responds to criticsm of Saturday's article on local political weblogs.  A blogger himself,  he would have preferred if the article's online version had been more Net friendly.

He also provides an email address for Tom Corrigan, he's the guy who make the decisions for what shows up in their online content.  I have added Tom to my address book.

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Over at the ABC's discussion forum I just got flamed in regards to my post on the District 7 school board race.  "Proud to be in ABC" copied and pasted his comment on the post, then prefaced it with this:

"I just submitted this as a comment on "Hoggard's Bloggs." He made a comment that Kris Cooke is so "smart" and "logical" when speaking of the High Point plan and then continues to degrade Bill Davidson. 

For those of you that don't know him, he is a nobody that used to continuously send editorials to local papers until they got sick of him. He also ran for a city council seat in Greensboro and lost. The only way he can get attention is to write his personal diary on-line. He loves to post about his beloved Aycock and now ABC has given his life new meaning-- Now another topic to degrade. His latest postings on his site concern his agony over Aycock's requirement of uniforms-- Anyway, this was my reply: "

Damn. 

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Greensboro is Talking wants to know, "How do you build a community?".  He compares the Gate City and surrounds to his past experiences and then laments what Greensboro lacks in that department:

"Greensboro is a city. Guilford is a county. Neither are communities. There is nothing...I repeat...NOTHING...that makes us a collective community. There is nothing that brings us all together. Nothing we can unite behind."

And then he asks:

"...who is going to put it all together? How do you get 230,000+ people who are used to going their own ways to come together and work toward the same thing?"

A commenter (my brother, from KY) gives my neighborhood some well-deserved kudos and weighs in with questions of his own:

"Is the culprit urbanization, architecture, technology, the hectic lifestyle many of us lead, or some other force of nature that seems to push many of us into our own private little worlds?"

Nothing is more important for "quality of life" than community.  Figuring out how to achieve a sense of belonging and commonality on a city-wide scale is an important conversation to be having.

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