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Originally posted by momoftwo
At the next task force meeting July 30, members will try to come up with four to six key issues for subcommittees to study throughout August, said John Novinson, Northbrook village manager.
When the village and Northfield Township High School District 225 formed the task force last month, officials said it would examine issues such as bullying, underage drinking and parental responsibility.
About two-thirds of the 32-member group gathered in Northbrook Village Hall Wednesday to hear presentations on many of those issues, Novinson said.
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Experience tells me that this is likely to turn into an exercize in frustration, futility and fruitlessness.
It will "try" to come up with "four to six" key issues to study? Seems to me that the issues are fairly obvious. If the committee has to "try," their vision is suspect.
The optimum size for a working group is five -- groups of thirty-two seldom get much done. They're too unwieldy and difficult to control. Also, at the last meeting a third of the panel didn't attend. How do you fit meetings into everyone's schedule? By the way, nice of them to allow
one student on the board with all of the politicians.
As for the comment about hazing in our society -- while unfortunate, it is true. We are very cognizant of hazing because it is such a huge issue in the Greek System and because we are taken to task so often for it. (And we should be) But, as it has been pointed out many times here on GC, hazing is everywhere -- the military, marching bands, athletics, other fraternal organizations and others. It should be stopped everywhere -- but that will be a long and hard process. In any event, we need to put our own house in order before we worry about the neighbors.
In the final analysis, this committee exercize isn't a surprize -- and it's a good way for the high school administrators and politicians to utter high and mighty proclamations on the state of our society, youth and our schools -- but it will be a difficult task for anything to come from it besides a long report with a lot of big words that will likely be unenforceable or quickly forgotten.
Or, am I just an uncurable cynic?