Well, certainly don’t clap your hands at any school board meetings!

At the board meeting this week, Mr. Lawson, school board president, in a never-ending attempt to look ever more clownish, premiered a new rule. If you clap during the meetings you will be removed from the room by Law Enforcement. Except wait, there was clapping at that meeting and Lawson did not have THOSE people removed. It seems the new rule applies only to people Lawson decides should not clap. New rule, different applications. Some will

be removed. Some stay. Will Lawson decide on an individual basis who goes and who stays?

But wait, how will Lawson decide who clapped? Will he do an on-the-spot review of the meeting video tape and declare, based on that, who goes? What if someone only looked like they were clapping, but really wasn’t? What if a person claps, but doesn’t make any sound? Stay, or go?

What if a person snaps their fingers instead of clapping? Is that ok? What if someone on the board accidentally claps … are they removed? What about instructors and administrators in the room? What if they should happen to clap for something? Stay or go? What about students? If a student should clap, will Lawson have Law Enforcement forcibly remove students from the meeting?

The reader might be wondering why the no-clapping rule. It’s as simple as this: Lawson and fellow saboteurs, Dziesinski, MacArthur and Costain, are displeased with the negative public comments they get at the board meetings. Apparently it hurts their feelings. And if the negative comments garner applause, well that’s just too much for these very thin-skinned folks.

Next school board meeting is this Monday, September 22nd, 5:30 on Gordon Road.

DAN MCNEIL

Alpena Township