Heard from our student at Marlborough High School in Massachusetts about the messy situation there earlier this week; turns out she was able to speak to her school committee on Tuesday night and that the committee agreed to ratify the teachers' contact after all. So after a month of work-to-rule where all extra-curriculars and after school activities and after-school help was cancelled, it's life back to normal for the students there.

Two observations. First, what's up with the media on this one? Several articles were written in the MetroWest Daily News and Marlborough Enterprise about the issue when things were ugly, but there hasn't been any coverage of it since it's been resolved?

Second, my understanding is that nothing was substantively changed between the version of the contract that the school committee approved this week, and the one it rejected back a month ago. So why all of the fuss about it? It's this kind of pointless political bickering, where the education of thousands of children hang in the balance, that illustrate just how far gone some of our elected officials are. It's one thing to temporarily hurt some children if the long-run gain is worthwhile, but this was a case of school committee members voting to hurt children for no reason whatsoever. If it wasn't Friday, and if it wasn't that MARCH time of the year, I'd issue a much louder !