John Legg’s Arm Chair Flippancy on High School Curriculum
Although his degree is in Social Work, Sen. John Legg (R-Port Richey) fancies himself to be an educator by virtue, I assume, for owning a charter school. Feeling frisky from his recent appointment as chairman of the Senate Education Policy Committee, Legg offered this piece of commentary:
“If we don’t do something different, we might as well cancel the eleventh and twelfth grades,” he said. “It can’t just be a wasteland of high school football, proms and homecoming. We need something more relevant.”While Legg was weighing in on the important topic of alternative high school graduation paths, his creepy justification shows him to be on an equally creepy fringe. His airy dismissal of the traditional social fabric of the nation’s high schools as a “wasteland” is arrogantly contemptuous. Not a good quality for a man in his position.