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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

School Tech Connect: More Astoundingly Bad Ideas

School Tech Connect: More Astoundingly Bad Ideas

More Astoundingly Bad Ideas

Let's examine parent trigger laws in other aspects of the public domain.

Police precinct trigger laws. 50% + 1 of the residents of a police precinct can force any precinct to re-organize as a private charter police department simply by gathering a petition to do so. Sounds reasonable. Sounds practical.

Military deployment trigger laws. 50% + 1 of citizens can force the military to disband and be re-organized as a mercenary force simply by gathering a petition. I wonder if we'd have more wars or less. I'm thinkin' more.

Rockford mayor Larry Morrisey, who is entitled to his