A long time ago in a far away place, I needed a B+ in a humanities class to finish college with a 3.00000000000 average. Long story short (which is the opposite of my college tenure) I wrote an essay on Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man taking Stephen Daedalus’ attempts at writing and explaining that as he stripped away the contextual he reduced his efforts to mere journalism, robbing his writing of any quality whatsoever. I got the B+ I needed. (I think it helped that I told the professor ahead of time what I was up to).
Anyways [I sic myself], it all came tumbling back to me (minus the hangovers) when I saw this sub-headline: “Some complain it's the wrong way to disperse political message”. Yeah, like no kidding.
The article explains the PTA in Mequon sent home with the kiddies and/or included with student report cards (PC alert: “children's progress reports”) propaganda to ask parents to actively oppose property tax freezes.
“Some complain it's the wrong way to disperse political message” is like saying, “Some complain MPS Students should not be used as manual labor in Democratic Campaigns” or “Some complain Journal/Sentinel headline writers sometimes just trying to fill space.”
I’ll give the headline writer some benefit of the doubt, but someone should ask the writer and the article writer, at some point doesn’t your common sense say, “Mequon PTA use wrong method to send political message”?
