Glenn Grothman: “Just one more time to emphasize on this amendment, it is my experience, in many, many years dealing with local…”

“Just one more time to emphasize on this amendment, it is my experience, in many, many years dealing with local superintendents, local school boards, very rarely are they appreciative of people on other levels of government without that expertise in education telling them what to do. Right now, I live in the Campbellsport School District. They are not appreciative when the legislature in Madison tells them how to run their schools, and they are certainly not appreciative when the U.S. Congress tells them how to run the schools. I am going to vote for this bill today. I think this bill is a step in the right direction. My guess is, if I talk to my local school boards 6 months from now, a year from now, they will be grateful that this bill passed, but they would like still more freedom. I do think that the local school boards are closer to the parents, closer to the children, and will do a better job of managing those schools than we will. That is why I have introduced this amendment. I mean, maybe 3 years from now, we are going to go back home to our school districts, and they will say: Oh, my goodness, I wish you would have prescribed more or ordered us around more. I don't think that is going to happen.…”