Open Forum on Freedom Academy: Too Big For its Britches

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Too Big For its Britches

Since Freedom Academy was awarded #1 charter school in Utah 2010, you would think that all is well. But nothing could be farther from the truth. There are deep schisms between board members and parents, faculty and students, PTO and curriculum. In fact, Freedom has over extended themselves cutting important classes, programs, and reducing staff. Yet they continue to pursue ambitions for expanding into a new high school. Indeed, it seems that they have bamboozled the masses. For Example, they recently received a Health Award for adjusting the cafeteria menu along a more nutritious vein. Great Job! But what they failed to mention is the fact that the school has cut Physical Education to one day every other week. Is this really the best we can do? Is this the best Utah has to offer? I sure hope not, otherwise they’ll have to super-size those little uniforms.

by: Humpty Dumpty

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Explaining The Blog Address

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dummies.blogspot.com was crafted for several reasons. Firstly, was the ethical issue of separating this blog from any appearance of being officially associated with the school--obviously it is not. Even though the blog title “Open Forum on Freedom Academy” speaks to the true nature of the blog, I wanted to insure that there was no confusion. Secondly, was the obvious phonetic self-deprecating humor--being that the public are often silent, treated like dummies and expected to sit back and capitulate to oligarchical decrees, (not that they are stupid, but that they are treated like dummies). Hence, it is a call for emancipation and liberation from autocrats ( i.e. free silent/dumb, AKA/also known as "dummies".) Lastly, (and this is more of an afterthought) as their is enough foolishness at Freedom Academy to go around, I say to all, “If the shoe fits, wear it.”