Outing Bloggers and Correcting Misconceptions
July 28, 2013 — pwceducationreformIn recent months / years Prince William County has seen a number of local citizen activists create blogs to inform or inflame the public on issues affecting our county government. Folks like The Sheriff and The Derecho have joinedVirginia Virtucon, Citizen Tom, Moonhowling, and BVBL , just to name a few, in covering a host of issues going on at the federal, state, and local level.
There a lots of blogs and keeping track of them is difficult. On the education side alone there are two blogs / groups; this blog and Our Schools.
To clarify, this group is not and has never been Our Schools. Our Schools is a group of concerned parents. I am not and have never been part of that group. Because education is a focused issue, we sometimes cover the same issues. As followers of both groups know, we don’t always see eye to eye. The folks behind Our Schools allow me to post articles I write on their facebook page, and I thank them for that.
As for this blog, it was created several years ago as an offshoot of the math wars in PWCS. The math wars were