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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our principal holds a get together in the spring for incoming parents of K students.  At this event, in response to an at best tangentially related question, she stated that she would never go to an MD beach to spite the current R governor.  (The governor mandated that schools start after Labor Day in large part to help businesses at the MD beaches.)

Regardless of what you think of starting school later, or the governor more broadly, it is crazy that she would make such a sharp political jab at a welcoming event.  Either she didn't care, or she just assumed every would agree with her, neither of which is really ok.[/quote]

She's probably angry because the Gov put beach business over student welfare.  This condensed calendar is not in the best academic interest of students.  Maybe the way it came out wasn't the most appropriate, but I don't know that I'd call that political.  Her ability to help students learn and retain info is directly affected by Hogan's (& Franchot's -- a Dem) policy. [/quote]

I may not have described it in the best way.  It was very clearly and unambiguously a political statement and stated a dislike for the governor beyond simply this policy point, although that was the focus.

It is not as clear cut as you present it that the slight delay to the start of school has any impact on students or their education.   But let's say it were.  I still do not think it is is appropriate for a principal at a welcoming event to make pointedly political remarks.

The idea of a welcoming event is to make the incoming parents feel welcome.  For all she knows, someone who works with the governor could be a parent.  She certainly should assume that, even in this area, there would be a few Republicans.  There are almost certainly people who like the policy, or don't view it as a big deal, in the crowd.

Think what would (and should) occur if almost any other group or view point had been criticized at "welcome" event.[/quote]

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