The Norwalk public school system is rife with issues that the BOE should be tackling. On the subject of leadership on the Board itself, its time for change, and I hope they pick someone who is willing to ask questions and lead.

But the BOE, oversight, transparency, teacher morale, operations and educational achievement are only part of the picture. Tonight I’m going to focus on the the venerable school bus. Until relatively late in life, I never had to take a school bus to school. I lived within a few blocks of my elementary schools and within 2 miles of the my middle schools. So I’m biased, for those who need hints, against school buses.

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Olympic athletes say that there’s no winning a silver medal, only losing the gold medal. And the gold medal of of politics is elections. Like sports, election track records are easy to keep score, you either have wins or losses tacked onto the long list of decisions that make up the campaigns. There’s a couple of things that popped up from yesterday threads about positive things in Norwalk politics. One is that the comments are filled with negativity. It always easier to be a critic, but to actually effect change, that is a much harder thing to accomplish because you have to do more than you just criticize the other guy. This maxim is something local Democrats keep failing to learn.

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