Friday, December 2, 2011

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: New School Board

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: New School Board:

New School Board

Here's a photo of the newly-constituted School Board - the men bookend the women.

It was a nice (and nearly full) swearing-in ceremony. All were sworn in by the person of their choice and then each gave a short speech. There were a few oddities, though.

One, if you took the names off the speeches and then handed them to me, I would have known who wrote what.

Two, as Dorothy Neville pointed out elsewhere, Harium asked Principal John Miner of Thorton Creek to swear him in. And, Principal Miner went out of his way to say what great public servant Harium is. Almost as if Harium's victory at the polls wasn't enough.

Three, a bit of a tone set. Michael DeBell, in his role as Board VP, was master of ceremonies and jokingly