PYP: Leftist bid at board control

Tom Hearn, liberal psychologist and habitual board member, went to great lengths in his Saturday My Turn to fault the Coeur d’Alene school board for ending the PYP program, otherwise known as U.N. globalist values for little kids. Mr. Hearn’s pitch? He says the trustees failed to study the program and decided based on some unethical hidden agenda. Ethics is founded on honesty. Let’s see if Mr. Hearn abides by his own rules. Did Mr. Hearn disclose in his My Turn that he interviewed unsuccessfully for the most recent trustee seat or that he stated in his interview that he supported IB/PYP? No. That information might have been useful to anyone reading his letter.

Perhaps most misleading was Mr. Hearn’s outright misstatement accusing the board of lack of any serious study of the program. Mr. Hearn, any objective person who was present at the board meeting on Oct. 1 heard the lengthy explanations by trustees Jim Purtee, Ann Seddon, Jim Hightower and Terri Seymour of all the things they looked at including student performance, the desires of the parents, teachers and the kids. No one can honestly claim that the trustees didn’t do their homework before making their decision. Yet that is the falsehood we keep hearing from Mr. Hearn’s side. “If you keep saying it, people will start to believe it.” Sorry Mr. Hearn, that might work in other parts of the country but not here. This is a left vs. right controversy, make no mistake. The left wants back control of the board.

GENE MANN

Coeur d’Alene